pithless

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The old mother, too tough herself for any hawk's beak to tear, is left squatting on her sorrows as on a pile of cracked and pithless bones.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wilt, wilt, v.i. to droop, lose energy.—v.t. to render limp or pithless.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

And pithless arms, like to a wither'd Vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. 1st Henry VI, act ii, sc.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

The emaciation of my body was extreme, my limbs were pithless reeds, my skull grinned through the tensely stretched skin, and my eyes were enormous.

From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

When their first pithless tenderness is past, we strip them and aim at hardening them to the temperature of the various seasons, till heat does not incommode nor frost paralyse them.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)