Crossword-Solution: GUMLESS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Hardly had Rodin finished reading, than he uttered a cry of stifled joy, saying, with an accent impossible to describe: "ONE gone! it works--'tis well!" And, closing his eyes in a kind of ecstatic transport, a smile of proud triumph overspread his face, and rendered him still more hideous, by discovering his yellow and gumless teeth.

Hardly had Rodin finished reading, than he uttered a cry of stifled joy, saying, with an accent impossible to describe: “ONE gone! it works--‘tis well!” And, closing his eyes in a kind of ecstatic transport, a smile of proud triumph overspread his face, and rendered him still more hideous, by discovering his yellow and gumless teeth.

For as Man undergoes Evolution ruthless, His skull will grow "dome-like, bald, terete"; And his mouth will be jawless, gumless, toothless-- No more will he drink or eat! He will soak in a crystalline bath of pepsine, (No ROBERT will then have survived, to wait,) And he'll hop on his hands as his food he steps in-- A quasi-cherubic gait! No longer the land or the sea he'll furrow; The world will be withered, ice-cold, dead As the chill of Eternity grows, he'll burrow Far down underground instead.