aidless
adjEtymology From aid + -less.
1
Without aid.
- 1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 20, I found the place Where that dam’d wisard hid in slie-disguise (For so by certain signs I knew) had met Alreadie, ere my best speed could praevent The aidlesse innocent Ladie his wish’t prey,
- It is not meet, Sir King, to leave thee thus, / Aidless, alone, and smitten through the helm.1842, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Morte d’Arthur”, in Poems, volume 2, London: Moxon, page 6:
2
Without mechanical assistance.
- Aidless navigation has the advantage of not requiring equipment, but is much less accurate.