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ARMLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does armless mean? 

ARMLESS (adjective)
  The adjective ARMLESS has 1 sense:

1. having no armsplay

  Familiarity information: ARMLESS used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ARMLESS (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having no arms

Context example:

the armless Venus de Milo

Antonym:

armed (having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination)


 Context examples 


A chorus of boisterous laughter came from the other rocks, and Dorothy saw hundreds of the armless Hammer-Heads upon the hillside, one behind every rock.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

“W’y ’as all this come on me? It mykes me fair sick, it does, an’ I try so ’ard to go through life ’armless an’ ’urtin’ nobody.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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