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Lidless

Lidless \Lid"less\ (l[i^]d"l[e^]s), a. Having no lid, or not covered with the lids, as the eyes; hence, sleepless; watchful.

A lidless watcher of the public weal.
--Tennyson.

Wiktionary
lidless

a. without a lid

WordNet
lidless
  1. adj. not having or covered with a lid or lids; "a lidless container" [ant: lidded]

  2. having no lid; "a lidless container"

  3. without having the eyes closed or covered by the eyelids; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson [syn: sleepless]

Usage examples of "lidless".

Beneath he glimpsed lidless eyes and the shine of human teeth, bared and lipless.

His lidless eyes stared unbelieving at Taran, and his hand with its lacking finger gripped the gem more tightly.

Theosophy books, and a box of chocolates, also lidless, full of empty paper wrappings and a few tooth-scarred, rejected creams.

Heart of men which ever pantest Naked, beneath the lidless eye of Heaven!

I found him: feet propped up on the lidless hulk of a big Compaq server, mousing away like mad at a big monitor.

Their heads had no mouth or nose and one huge single staring shining lidless eye.

Upon their backs, the strange silvery imprint of a lidless eye stared up from the display case.

As the smoke cleared before his lidless eyes, a great flopping came from overhead.

And may be stamped, a memory all in vain, Upon the sight of lidless eyes in Hell.

It had lidless eyes and horrible writhing hair that was a mass of eels with tiny sharp teeth nipping at her face.

The sunlight was weaker here, but they could see a massive lidless coffin set by the far wall.

A head emerged, gross and distorted, lidless eyes peering into the room.

They had lidless slit-pupiled eyes, gaping nostril pits, outsize lipless jaws rimmed with yellow vomerine fangs.

I heard a short, sharp cry behind me, a fall, and turning saw an awful face rushing upon me,--not human, not animal, but hellish, brown, seamed with red branching scars, red drops starting out upon it, and the lidless eyes ablaze.

I was lying on a mirror-polished floor, cinnabar red, and reflected in it was my face-or not my face, not the features I remembered, but something like a hog-nosed snake with lidless human eyes peering from sea-anemone stalks and the pink cauliflower of brain matter all encased in a gel pod and chrome net.