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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Destitute of sap; not juicy.

Fig.

: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless.

“A somewhat sapless womanhood.”

Lowell.

Now

sapless

on the verge of death he stands.

Dryden.

Adj.

[from sap.]

Destitute of sap; as a sapless tree or branch.

Dry; old; husky; as a sapless usurer.

sapless ‎(comparative more sapless, superlative most sapless)