liceless

English

Etymology

From lice +‎ -less.

Adjective

liceless (not comparable)

1. Without lice.
   • 1906 February, W. F. Hines, Missouri Valley Farmer, seventeenth year, number 1, Topeka, Kan., Kansas City, Mo., Chicago, Ill., page 9:

     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.

   • 1908 August 25, Santa Cruz Evening News, volume II, number 103, Santa Cruz, Calif., page four:

     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.

   • 1916, Extension Bulletin, page 15:

     A sitting hen kept free from lice will mean liceless chicks.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 1924, Andrew Dewar Gibb, With Winston Churchill at the Front: Winston in the Trenches 1916, Frontline Books, published 2016, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 1974, Stefan Themerson, Logic, Labels, and Flesh, Gaberbocchus Press, →ISBN, page 195:

     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, […]

   • 1995 September 6, Barbara Wamboldt, “A lice-told tale in a class of its own”, in The Kingston Whig-Standard, Kingston, Ont., page 4:

     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.

   • 2018 September 2, “‘Sea lice’ irritating swimmers at Shore”, in Asbury Park Press, volume 139, number 210, page 3A:

     Search “beaches” at APP.com for some of the summer’s best (and sea lice-less) photos

Synonyms

• louseless