sleeveless, sleevelesse

[English sleeve; 1. Lit.: Having no sleeves; wanting sleeves. "Then baring both his arms-a sleevele coat He girds the rough exuviæ of a goat." Cowper: Translations from Virgil ; The Salad. *2. Fig .: Wanting a cover, pretext or excuse; unreasonable, bootle , usele . (Generally in the phrase, a sleevele errand.) "To save himself from the vexation of a sleevele er. rand."-War burton: Divine Legation, bk. iii.