Wineless


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Wine´less


a.1.destitute of wine; as, wineless life.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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We may apply an alien term, and then deny of that term one of its proper attributes; as if we were to call the shield, not 'the cup of Ares,' but 'the wineless cup.'
And now I recognize as yours the sign That led my wanderings to this your grove; Else had I never lighted on you first, A wineless man on your seat of native rock.