foisonless, a. Chiefly Sc.
(ˈfɔɪz(ə)nlɪs)
Also fison-, fishion-, fissen-, fiz(z)en-, fusion-, fushionless.
[f. foison n. + -less.]
Wanting substance, strength, or ‘sap’; weak, ineffective, both in a material and immaterial sense. Of grass: Wanting in succulence or nourishing properties.
| 1721 Kelly Sc. Prov. 104 Fair Folk is ay Fisonless. a 1796 Burns ‘The Deuk's dang o'er my Daddie’, An' he is but a fusionless carlie. c 1817 Hogg Tales & Sk. I. 328 Old rusty and fizenless sword. 1824 Scott St. Ronan's xxxii, And puir thin fusionless skink it was. 1837 Carlyle Misc. (1857) IV. 3 Our very Biographies, how stiff-starched, foisonless, hollow. 1864 Athenæum No. 1921. 234/2 The fusionless bog hay. 1870 Pall Mall G. 27 Sept. 11 These fusionless idlers who never derange themselves for anything. 1888 R. F. D. Palgrave in Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 745 The ‘wild⁓fire’ proved a very fizzenless mixture. |