CHAPLESS

Etymology

Adjective

chapless (not comparable)

(obsolete) Having no lower jaw; fleshless.

HAMulticultural London EnglishT

Why, e'en so. And now my Lady Worm’s, chapless and knocked about the mazard with a sexton’s spade. Here’s fine revolution, an we had the trick to see ’t. Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggets with them? Mine ache to think on ’t.

Source: Wiktionary

Chap"less, a.

Definition: Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless. [R.] "Yellow, chapless skulls." Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition