a. [f. TRUNK sb. + -LESS.] Having no trunk; esp. without a body, or severed from the body, as a head.
1631. Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 279. Their trunklesse faces.
1682. J. Banks, Anna Bullen, V. i. 78. The Trunkless Head with darting Eyes beheld her.
1820. Examiner, No. 630. 290/1. The exhibition of their trunkless heads.
1897. Daily News, 18 Feb., 2/2. The woolly elephant is trunkless.
1897. Naturalist, 243. A generation … that lops its oaks into trunkless brush-wood.
