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English Dictionary: nameless by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nameless
adj
  1. being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless owners"; "an unnamed donor"
    Synonym(s): nameless, unidentified, unknown, unnamed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nameless \Name"less\, a.
      1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a
            nameless star. --Waller.
  
      2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous.
  
                     A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. --Harte.
  
      3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless
            writer.[bd]Nameless pens.[b8] --Atterbury.
  
      4. Unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible.
  
                     But what it is, that is not yet known; what I can
                     not name; [?]t is nameless woe,I wot. --Shak.
  
                     I have a nameless horror of the man.   --Hawthorne.
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