Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lidless"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Lidless \Lid"less\ (l[i^]d"l[e^]s), a.
Having no lid, or not covered with the lids, as the eyes;
hence, sleepless; watchful.

A lidless watcher of the public weal. --Tennyson.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

lidless
adj 1: not having or covered with a lid or lids; "a lidless
container" [ant: {lidded}]
2: having no lid; "a lidless container"
3: without having the eyes closed or covered by the eyelids;
"to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public
weal"- Alfred Tennyson [syn: {sleepless}]


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