lidless

adj

Etymology

From lid + -less.

  1. inherited from *ḱley-
  2. inherited from *ḱlitós
  3. inherited from *hlidą
  4. inherited from *hlid
  5. inherited from hlid
  6. inherited from lid
  7. suffixed as lidless — “lid + less

Definitions

  1. Without a lid.

    • Two or three minutes later the murdered man, the blanketed corpse, the lidless coffin, and the open grave were under no inspection but the moon’s.
    • You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked—those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!—as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment.

The neighborhood

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