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"2": "lice",
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"etymology_text": "From lice + -less.",
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"ref": "1906 February, W. F. Hines, Missouri Valley Farmer, seventeenth year, number 1, Topeka, Kan., Kansas City, Mo., Chicago, Ill., page 9",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1908 August 25, Santa Cruz Evening News, volume II, number 103, Santa Cruz, Calif., page four",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1916, Extension Bulletin, page 15",
"text": "A sitting hen kept free from lice will mean liceless chicks.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "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",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1924, Andrew Dewar Gibb, With Winston Churchill at the Front: Winston in the Trenches 1916, Frontline Books, published 2016",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1974, Stefan Themerson, Logic, Labels, and Flesh, Gaberbocchus Press, page 195",
"text": "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,[…]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1995 September 6, Barbara Wamboldt, “A lice-told tale in a class of its own”, in The Kingston Whig-Standard, Kingston, Ont., page 4",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 September 2, “‘Sea lice’ irritating swimmers at Shore”, in Asbury Park Press, volume 139, number 210, page 3A",
"text": "Search “beaches” at APP.com for some of the summer’s best (and sea lice-less) photos",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Without lice."
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"word": "louseless"
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"ref": "1906 February, W. F. Hines, Missouri Valley Farmer, seventeenth year, number 1, Topeka, Kan., Kansas City, Mo., Chicago, Ill., page 9",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1908 August 25, Santa Cruz Evening News, volume II, number 103, Santa Cruz, Calif., page four",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1916, Extension Bulletin, page 15",
"text": "A sitting hen kept free from lice will mean liceless chicks.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "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",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1924, Andrew Dewar Gibb, With Winston Churchill at the Front: Winston in the Trenches 1916, Frontline Books, published 2016",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1974, Stefan Themerson, Logic, Labels, and Flesh, Gaberbocchus Press, page 195",
"text": "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,[…]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1995 September 6, Barbara Wamboldt, “A lice-told tale in a class of its own”, in The Kingston Whig-Standard, Kingston, Ont., page 4",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 September 2, “‘Sea lice’ irritating swimmers at Shore”, in Asbury Park Press, volume 139, number 210, page 3A",
"text": "Search “beaches” at APP.com for some of the summer’s best (and sea lice-less) photos",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Without lice."
],
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],
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "louseless"
}
],
"word": "liceless"
}
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