Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Havingno fountain; without springs or wells.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without fountains.

Etymologies

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fountain +‎ -less

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Examples

  • He described her, like Hagar watching the waning life of her infant amid the fountainless desert; like

    Old Mortality 2004

  • He described her, like Hagar watching the waning life of her infant amid the fountainless desert; like

    Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

  • He described her, like Hagar watching the waning life of her infant amid the fountainless desert; like

    Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

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