- Makeless
- Makeless Make"less, a. [See 1st {Make}, and cf. {Matchless},
{Mateless}.]
1. Matchless. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
2. Without a mate. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Makeless
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