dowless, a. Sc.
(ˈdaʊlɪs)
[f. dow v.1 + -less: cf. Ger. taugenichts.]
Without strength or energy; feeble; infirm.
| 1788 Picken Poems 50 (Jam.) Winter's dowless days. Ibid. 55 (Jam.) Dowless fowk, for health gane down. a 1810 Tannahill Poet. Wks. (1846) 48 Dowless eild, in poortith cauld, Is lanely left to stand the stoure. |