liceless en · ADJ
Etymology
From lice + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without lice.
A sitting hen kept free from lice will mean liceless chicks.
1916, Extension Bulletin, page 15:I remember the Corps Commander passing the billet when we were busy with our hot irons, extruding the lice from trousers and shirts.[…]We were certainly a liceless battalion.
1924, Andrew Dewar Gibb, With Winston Churchill at the Front: Winston in the Trenches 1916, Frontline Books, published 2016, →ISBN:WILL BUILD “LICELESS” CHICKEN COOPS HERE. Andy Baldwin of Boulder Creek, who has invented a new chicken coop which is claimed to be proof against lice, is in town to look for a location for manufacturing his coops on a large scale.
1908 August 25, Santa Cruz Evening News, volume II, number 103, Santa Cruz, Calif., page four:Most of what was advocated by idealistic social reformers, trying to mould and re-hammer our Beliefs, was actually converted into fact not by them but by K-forces pouring steadily under their momentum out of unromantic research laboratories into factories, and from there into the ordinary, everyday ways of life. Synthetic vitamins, nylon tights, lice-less hair, pneumonia-free hitch-hiking , sex without v.d., soap without scum, progesterone-planned families, paperback in the pocket, theatre in the bedroom,[…]
1974, Stefan Themerson, Logic, Labels, and Flesh, Gaberbocchus Press, →ISBN, page 195:The doctor was issuing my non-vermin certificate, a certificate declaring me free of lice and fleas, and at that moment the first flea fell upon me. But at Moscow I was liceless and flealess.
1920 November 6, Alfons Goldschmidt, “Moscow in 1920”, in Soviet Russia: Official Organ of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau, volume III, number 19, page 453:Search “beaches” at APP.com for some of the summer’s best (and sea lice-less) photos
2018 September 2, “‘Sea lice’ irritating swimmers at Shore”, in Asbury Park Press, volume 139, number 210, page 3A:Device for Licelesss Roosts.[…]This cup, formed by the inverting of the insulator, should be kept filled with oil, and no lice can crawl up to where the chickens are.
1906 February, W. F. Hines, Missouri Valley Farmer, seventeenth year, number 1, Topeka, Kan.; Kansas City, Mo.; Chicago, Ill., page 9:Our school was divided down the middle. Those who did, and those who did not – have lice, that is.[…]We, the liceless, got preferential treatment from the teacher.
1995 September 6, Barbara Wamboldt, “A lice-told tale in a class of its own”, in The Kingston Whig-Standard, Kingston, Ont., page 4: