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chiefless

adj

Etymology

From chief + -less. Piecewise doublet of chefless and headless.

  1. derived from *káput✻
  2. derived from *kaput✻
  3. derived from caput — “head”
  4. derived from capus
  5. derived from chef
  6. inherited from cheef
  7. suffixed as chiefless — “chief + less”

Definitions

  1. Without a chief

    Without a chief; leaderless.

    • No great clan held rule there; it was filled and disputed by small septs, and broken remnants, and what they call "chiefless folk," driven into the wild country about the springs of Forth and Teith by the advance of the Campbells.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA