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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sapless  \Sap"less\,  a. 
  1.  Destitute  of  sap;  not  juicy. 
 
  2.  Fig.:  Dry;  old  husky;  withered;  spiritless.  ``A  somewhat 
  sapless  womanhood.''  --Lowell. 
 
  Now  sapless  on  the  verge  of  death  he  stands. 
  --Dryden. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sapless 
  adj  1:  lacking  physical  strength  or  vitality;  "a  feeble  old  woman"; 
  "her  body  looked  sapless"  [syn:  {decrepit},  {feeble}, 
  {infirm},  {weak},  {weakly}] 
  2:  destitute  of  sap  and  other  vital  juices;  dry;  "the  rats  and 
  roaches  scurrying  along  the  sapless  planks"-  Norman  Mailer 




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