Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Nobless"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nobless \No*bless"\, Noblesse \No*blesse"\ (?; 277), n. [F.
noblesse. See {Noble}.]
1. Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition. [Obs.]
--Chaucer. Spenser. B. Jonson.
2. The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively,
including males and females. --Dryden.
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