reinless

English

Etymology

rein +‎ -less

Adjective

reinless (comparative more reinless, superlative most reinless)

  1. Not having, or not governed by, reins.
    • 1817 December​, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, OCLC 1000449192, page 268:
      Lo! with reinless speed
      A black Tartarian horse of giant frame
      Comes trampling o’er the dead; the living bleed
      Beneath the hoofs of that tremendous steed,
      On which, like to an Angel, robed in white,
      Sate one waving a sword;—the hosts recede […]
  2. (by extension) Not checked or restrained.

References
  • reinless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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