Within the grove's Thick foliage perch'd, she pours her echoing voice UN-A'WED. Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. xix. Not terrified, or afraid, or affrighted; not overpowered by feelings of the superiority of another. Unforc'd by punishment, un-aw'd by fear, His words were simple, and his soul sincere. Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. 1. But here he stopped; and, unawed by all besides, whether of divine or human, he did not dare to cast so much as one licentious trait against that venerable judicature. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. iv. Ded. UN-BACKED. Not moved back or backwards; not mounted on the back; not assisted, supported, upheld, encouraged. First, he for whom thou dost this villany, Though pleas'd therewith, will not avouch thy fact, But let the weight of thine own infamy Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iii. Laf. No, no, no, your sonne was misled with a snipt taffata fellow there, whose villanous saffron wold haue made all the en-bak'd and dowy youth of a nation in his colour. Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well, Act iv. sc. 5. Fourteen or fifteen plantains or bananas, each of them six or seven inches long, and four or five round, and near a quart of the pounded bread-fruit, is as substantial as the thickest unbaked custard.-Cook. First Voyage, b. i. c. 17. UN-BA'LANCED. Not weighed by equal proportions; not in equipoise; not having equal weight, force, power, authority. Thus good or bad, to one extreme betray Th' unbalanc'd mind, and snatch the man away; Pope. Imitation of Horace, b. i. Ep. 6. Let earth unbalanc'd from her orbit fly, Id. Ess. on Man, Ess. 1. Not having a lading or loading to steady or give steadiness, (sc. to a vessel in the water) or to any thing in its motion or action ;-not steadied. UNBA'LLASTING, n. To unballast—is to remove such lading. And now on the sudden transported under another climate to be toss'd and turmoil'd with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy, do for the most part grow into hatred and contempt of learning, mock'd and deluded all this while with ragged notions and babblements.-Millon. Of Education. He must needs be like a light unballaced vessell, that rises and falls with every wave, and depends onely on the mercy of wind and water. Bp. Hall. Heaven upon Earth, § 25. It is necessary time and pains that is given to the unbal lasting of a ship, casting out the earth and sand, when it is to be loaden with spices. We must be emptied more, if we would have of that fulness and riches which we are longing for.-Leighton. Com. upon the First Epistle of Peter Whilst alas! my timorous muse Unambitious tracts pursues; Does with weak unballast wings, About the mossy brooks and springs, And all inferior beauteous things, Like the laborious bee, For little drops of honey flee, And there with humble sweets contents her industry. But as at sea th' unballast'd vessel rides, UN-BANDED. Not tied or fastened; not having a band, or fastening. But I pardon you for that, for simply your hauing in beard, is a yonger brother's reuenneu, then your hose should be vngarter'd, your bonnet vnbanded, your sleeue vnbutton'd, your shoo vntide, and euerie thing about you, demonstrating a carelesse desolation. Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act iii. sc. 2. UN-BAPTIZED. Not dipped or merged; not having received the rite of baptism. And as for infantes dyeng vnbaptized, in manve of these thynges that I haue rehersed by the way, many men wil peraduenture thynk other wyse. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1287. He being but a child, in his clear bosom felt UN-BAR, v. To remove the bar or implement of defence, the guard or security. Eftsoones himselfe in glitterand armes he dight, And his well proued weapons to him bent; So taking courteous conge he behight, Those gates to be vnbard, and forth he went. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 11. It is vicious and faulty it self, spoileth and marreth clean the intemperate and incontinent person, by making no resistance to his appetites and demands, but letting all lie unfortified, unbarrd, and unlockt, yeelding easie accesse and entrance to those that will make assault and give the attempt.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 136. For all my labours in so long a space, UN-BARBED. mown. Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xiii Not sheared, shaven, or For whom, when with his hounds The labouring hunter tufts the thick unbarbed grounds Where harbour'd is the hart; there often from his feed The dogs of him do find.-Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 13. Prythee now say you will, and goe about it. Corio. Must I goe shew them my vnbarb'd sconce ? Must I with my base tongue giue to my noble heart A lye, that it must beare? well, I will doo't. Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act iii. sc. 2. To go out of a bark, i.e. a stout or strong vessel; to strip off the bark, i.e. the coat defending or protecting the tree. UN-BARK, v. This being past, the next day after our arriuall in the sayd port, wee did vnbarke our selues and went on lande vp to the citie or head towne of the great Canaria, where we remained 18. or 20. dayes. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 448. It hath been observed, that a branch of a tree, being unbarked some space at the bottome, and so set into the ground, hath growen.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 654. UN-BARRICA'DOED. Not barred; i. e. stopped or blocked up, obstructed, fortified. Rather (let him) quietly take up with what he could find in the glutted markets, the unbarricadoed streets, the drowsy Old Bailey judges, or, at worst, the airy, wholesome pillory of Old England.-Burke. Letter to William Elliot, Esq. UN-BASE. Not low or mean, not degrading, or disgraceful. How should we know thy soul had been secur'd, UN-BA'SHED. UNBA'SHFUL. Not filled or shame. Daniel. To Henry Wriothesly. i.e. unabashed, (qv.) Unbashful.overflowing with, not feeling, practice already having prepared, began each, with unbushed The watch gave a quick alarm to the soldiers within, whom hearts, or at least countenances, to look to their charge or obedience which was allotted to them. Sidney. Arcadia, b. iii. For in my youth I neuer did apply Shakespeare. As You Like It, Aet li. sc. 3. A ruin'd cheek like mine, that holds his colour Beaum, & Fletch. Love's Pilgrimage, Act iii. se. 2 For whence, my guest! should thy beliefe arise, Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. xix. UN-BATTERED. Not beaten or knocked, Having nothing for the cutter, parer, shaver, mower; nothing resembling the hair of the chin. The people are of good stature, wel in body proportioned, with small slender hands and feet, with broad visages, and smal eyes, wide mouthes: the most part enbearded, great lips, and close toothed.-Hackluyt. Voyages, p. 104. Th' unbearded youth, his guardian once being gone, I' the open field.-B. Jonson. Horace. Art of Poetry. ducing. Dryden. Horace, Ep. 2. UN-BEAST, v. To divest of the form, or qualities of a beast. Thus we the guiltie scourge! Thus thus we our Sandys. Ovid. Metam. b. ii. UN-BE ATEN. Not struck or hit; not struck down, levelled, trodden. Howere his talke, his company pleas'd well; P. Fletcher. A Hymn at the Marriage of my Cousins. Where hadst thou room, great author! where to roll The mighty theme of an immortal soul? Through paths unknown, unbeaten, whence were brought Thy proofs so strong for immaterial thought. Young. Letter to Mr. Tickell. UN-BEAUTEOUS. Į Not having those UNBEAUTIFUL. qualities that are agree. able or pleasing to the senses, in the material world; not having those intellectual or moral qualities which are pleasing or agreeable to the mind. The sanctifying spirit that beautifies the soul, is an humbling spirit also, to make it unbeauteous in its own eyes. Hammond, vol. iv. Ser. 8. We stick in the shell and superfices of them, and seek ne further; that makes them unbeautiful, and unsavory to us and that use of them turns into an empty custom Leighton. Com. on Peter, v. 21. It is intended also for the ornament of the church I say ornament: for I cannot persuade my self, that God ever designed his church for a rude, naked, unbeautiful lump: or to lay the foundations of purity in the ruins of decency. South, vol. iii. Ser. 11. UN-BECOMING. Į Not convenient or conUNBECO'MINGNESS. current; not fitting, decent, appropriate, or suitable. Altho' he receives no addition of happiness by the return of glory from his creatures, yet it is a thing he values, his glory he will not give to another; and it is unbecoming the excellency of his majesty to be disappointed in his end. Hale. Cont. Of Humility, Let us learn from hence, to abstain from all such rash and horrid imprecations, which the ears of sober heathens would tingle at; but which are more unbecoming, and more heinous (as, I fear, they are more familiar) in the mouths of Christians.-Atterbury, vol. iii. Ser. 5. Or, if words are sometimes to be used, they ought to be grave, kind and sober, representing the ill, or unbecomingness of the faults, rather than a hasty rating of the child for it.-Locke. Of Education, § 77. Their dress has been mentioned already, particularly their large round head-dresses of feathers, which were far from being unbecoming-Cook. First Voyage, b. ii. c. 6. UN-BED, v. To move out of bed. Eels unbed themselves, and stir at the noise of thunder. Wallon. Angler. UN-BEEN. One of H. More's peculiars. Without having been, or existed. When they passed have Their gloomy orb (false shades eas❜ly deceive) Of life and being, but the hidden might More. Song of the Soul, pt. ii. b. i. c. 1. st. 15. UN-BEFITTING. Not suiting or becoming. See UNBECOMING. These are things to no purpose; not only for the levity and theatrical gayeties and representments unbefitting the gravity and purity and spirituality of Christian religion... Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. iii. c. 4. This time, you know, calls for a discourse concerning the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; of this you hear no sound in the words, which I have read, and therefore you conclude it a text unbefilling the day. Hales. Rem. Ser. Luke, xvi. 25. UN-BEFOOL, v. To restore from the state or condition of a fool; of one fooled or gulled. A man's way out of error, lies thro' the paths of conviction; and he that recovers a fool must first unbefool him to that degree, as to persuade him of his folly. South, vol. vii. Ser. 8. UN-BEGET, v. Not gotten, or gained; not generated or produced. Wherein the sonnes will that is yet unbegotten, can Beaum. & Fletch. Humorous Lieutenant, Act iv. sc. 2. UN-BEGUILE, v. To free from deception, from wily or false allurements or persuasions. And to the intent thou liue vnbeguiled, I wyll tell the a secrete.-Golden Boke, c. 42. Come, come away from wrong, from craft, from toil, Daniel. Letter from Octavia to Marcus Antonius. That he might unbeguile and win them, he designed to write a deliberate and sober treatise on the church's power to make canons for the use of ceremonies, and by law to impose an obedience to them, as upon her children. Walton. Life of Hooker. Blue-ey'd Minerva free preserves her heart, UN-BELIE/F. UNBELIE'VEFUL. A. S. Ungeleafa; Dut. On- as a rule of life; not to think right, not to credit And he did not there inany vertues, for the unbileve of And he did not many miracles there, for their unbelefes Jhesus answeride and seide, a thou generacioun unbileeful He that bileueth in the sone, hath euerlastinge lyf: but Wee saie also, that the minister doth execute the authoritie of binding and shutting, as often as he shutteth vp the gate of the kingdome of heauen against vnbeleeuing and stubborne persons, denouncing vnto them Gods vengeaunce, Jewel. Replie vnto M. Hardinge, p. 14. and euerlasting punishment. For here was de a foreshewe of the churche, that shoulde bee gathered together of the Gentiles, because the synagogue dyd throughe her unbeliefe, repell the ghospell. Udal. Marke, c. 3. This to almighty God hath so been thought good, to thentet that al creatures maie vnderstand, nothing to be so vnhelieuable emong me, which the power of God is not able to bring to effecte, if it be his pleasure.-Id. Luke, c. 1. And thoughe it semed to bee a thing vnbeleuable that was promysed, yet bothe Abraham beleued, and God performed. Id. Dedis, c. 7. Doest thou beleeue so, said the Sophie vnto me? Yea that I do, said I: Oh thou vnbeleeuer, said he, we haue no neede to haue friendship with the vnbeleeuers, and so willed me to depart.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 349. And I, as did Æneas, Beaum. & Fletch. The Woman's Prize, Act il. sc. 2. I made his valour stoop, and brought that name soar'd to Which unbeleeuing man, that is not mov'd Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 4. They heard and rose, and tremulously brave Byron. Lara, c. 1. UN-BEND, v. To move from a curved, crooked or bowed line into a straight or direct one; to turn into a direct line. To unbend a bow is, consequentially, to relax its tension: and, hence, (met.) to unbend is— To relax, to remit, to give relaxation, ease or freedom to. We unbend, and thou wilt spende thy speares. Golden Boke, Let. 9. Their utmost rage the English now had breath'd, Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. His sinewy proboscis did remissly lie. Donne. Progress of the Soul, son. 1. Congreve. Horace, b. iii. Ode 21 Ye noble few! who here unbending stand Thomson. Winter. The short unbending reck of the elephant is compensated by the length and flexibility of his proboscis. UN-BENEFITED. profited. Paley Natural Theology, c. 16. Having received no good, service or advantage; not served or Unbeneficed,-not having received an ecclesiastical benefice or preferment. But [it] hath tainted also the fountains of Divine doctrine, and render'd the pure and solid law of God unbeneficial to us by their calumnious dunceries. Millon. Doct. & Disc. of Divorce, b. ii. c. 22. More vacant pulpits wou'd more converts make, Dryden. The Hind and the Panther. For the most part, dissenters, men little known, yet men of industry and virtue, men who have acquired their excellence, whatever it may be, uninstructed by the tuition, unbenefted by the foundations, and undignified by the graduation of Oxford and Cambridge.-Knox. Liberal Education, App. UN-BENIGHTED. Day, or the light of day, Howbeit, their enbeleefe in that case we may not impute had not gone down or descended or declined. vnto any weakness or vnsufficiency in the meanes which is Religion did first take place in cities, and in that respect I scarce can think him such a worthless thing, Pope. Imit. of Horace, b. ii. Ep. 1. For the mind doth, by every degree of affected unbelief, contract more and more of a general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury, vol. ii. Ser. 2. And it was his settled opinion, that the advancement and UN-BESEE'M, v. UNBESEEMINGLY. UNBESEE MINGNESS. To look or appear not, (sc.) like itself; as it ought to look or appear, i. e. not to look or appear or be, apt, becoming, decent, convenient, suitable, appropriate. For he considered, that king John had resolued vpon this point onelie in his heat and furie (which moueth men to vndertake manie an inconuenient enterprise, vnbeseeming the person of a common man, much more reprochfull to a prince.)-Holinshed. Chron. K. John, an. 1202. Whereas Martin has dedicated his book to Queen Mary, then a virgin, Ponet shewed his uncivil, rude language, unbeseeming the modesty of a virgin. to see or hear. Strype. Eccles. Mem. Q. Mary, an. 1556. Against the disguise, she had pleaded the unbeseemingness for her person and state; against the journey, the perils of so long and solitary a walk. Bp. Hall. Cont. Jeroboam's Wife. Writing to the dispersed Jews, he calls sinful lusts the will of the Gentiles, as having least controul of contrary light in them; and yet the Jews walked in the same, though they had the law as a light and rule for the avoiding of them; and implies, that these lusts were unbeseeming even their former condition as Jews; but much more unsuitable to them, as now, Christians. Leighton. Com. on 1 Peter, c. 4. Equity doth exact, and gratitude requireth, and all reason dictateth, that we should be content; or that in being disconted we behave our selves very unbeseemingly and unworthily, are very unjust, very ingratefull, and very foolish toward him.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 6. Ah! may'st thou ever be what now thou art, UN-BESOUGHT. begged or petitioned. And least cold Byron. To Ianthe. Not searched or asked, Cheere your heart, Be you not troubled with the time, which driues Hold unbewayl'd their way. Shakespeare. Anthony & Cleopatra, Act iii. sc. 6. UN-BEWARE, or Unaware, (qv.) Thus our most louing maister Chryst giueth monicio vnto his church militaüt here in erth of ye tribulació to come, lest perauētur sodely vnbewar it fal in decay. Fisher. Seuen Psalmes, Ps. 143, pt. ii. In a filthy vow chage thy former decre. Fulfyll not that thou hast vowed vnbewares, for that promyse is wycked, whiche is not accōplished without naughtynes. Bale. Apologie, fol. 25. UN-BEWITCH, v. To free from guile, deception, or delusion. Ordinary experience observed would unbewitch men as to those deausins.-South, vol. ix. Ser. 6. UN-BIAS, v. Not to turn away,-from an They clearly see that their highest perfection consists in the most even and unbiassed conformity to the command of God.-Hale. Cont. Meditations upon the Lord's Prayer. The barbar affront she had been exposed to, for con- Only he, that would thus give the mind its flight, and But indeed the humble and unbiassed minds of the illite- UN-BID. UNBIDDEN. A. S. Unbeden. Not asked, not required, not demanded, not commanded. She did not only ieoperde as an rubidden geste boldely to entre into the house of a Pharisee: but also euen as she was decked and trimmed in her araie, came in boldely into the compaignie as thei satte at the bourde.-Udal. Luke, c. 7. So vp he rose, and thence amounted streight; Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 9. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x. He said no more but crown'd a bowl unbid, The laughing nectar overlook'd the lid. Dryden. Homer. Iliad, b. i. Menelaus went, Heroic chief! unbidden, for he knew His brother's mind with weight of care oppress'd. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. ii. UN-BIDE. Not to stay or remain, or con tinue. And the kindly stede of this blisse, is in soch wil medled to vnbide, and nedes in that it shuld haue his kindely beyng. Chaucer. Testament of Loue, b. iii. But yet I say, thilke blisse is kindely good, and his kindely place in that will to unbyde.-Id. Ib. He can make within a little stound For the lawe saith: ther is nothing so good by way of kinde, as a thing to be unbounde by him that it was ybounde. Id. The Tale of Melibeus. Were I unbounden, all so mote I the, Id. The Marchantes Prol. v. 8103. It is a much lesse thing also, to beleue our self to be bounden to doe a thinge of necessity, wlout authoritye of scripture, the to think oure self without scripture, enbounden and in no necessitie to doe ye thyng which we fynde commaunded in scripture.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 518. But she resolv'd no remedy to finde, Till fortune would her captiue bonds vnbinde. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 11. So yt by this place ye see pued by ye plain wordes of saint Peter, that Christ at his resurrecció dyd lose and enbind paines in hell-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 320. In vain, though by thir powerful art they binde In various shapes old Proteus from the sea Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii. The next morning the cloath being rubb'd off, I unbound it, and found the worm broken off, and the hole quite healed up.-Dampier. Voyages, an. 1676. This riband bind beneath thy breast, Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. v. UN-BISHOP, v. To be without, to divest of, the rank or character of bishop. For. I must profess that I cannot look upon Titus as so far un-bishop'd yet, but that he still exhibits to us all the essentials of that jurisdiction, which to this day is claimed for Episcopal-South, vol. i. Ser. 5. UN-BITTED. Not withheld or restrained (as by the bit of a bridle). See UNBRIDLED. But we haue reason to coole our raging motions, ear carnall stings, or vnbilled lusts: whereof I take this, that you call loue, to be a sect, or seyen [scion.] Shakespeare. Othello, Act i. sc. 3. UN-BIGOTTED. Free from vain scruples or found fault with; not rebuked, chided, reprisuperstitions. I shall only add, that Erasmus, who was an unbigotted Roman Catholick, was so much transported with this passage from Socrates, that he could scarce forbear looking upon him as a saint, and desiring him to pray for him. Spectator, No. 213. UN-BIND, v. To loose (sc.) the tie or fastenUNBOUND. ing; to free, to deliver, from bond, fastening or confinement; to loose, to set at liberty. Sore hym of thogte the erle's deth, ac in other half he fonde Joye in hys herte, for the contasse of spoushed was un- Id. p. 376. But now we ben unboundun fro the lawe of deeth in which we weren holdun, so that we seruen in newenesse of spyryt and not in coldnesse of lettre. Wiclif. Romaynes, c. 7. Thou art boundun to a wyf, nyle thou seke unbynding: thou art unboundun fro a wyf nyle thou seke a wyf. Id. 1 Corynth, c. 7. And anoon he that was deed, cam out, boundun the hondis and feet with bondis, and hise face boundun with a sudarye, and Jhesus seith to hem, unbinde ye him, and suffre ye him to go forth.-Id. Jon, c. 11. manded, unfavourably censured. And because there can be betwixte God and synners no peace, it hath pleased him frely to forgeue al the offences of your former life, to thentent he woulde in his sight make you holy, enblameable, and faultles.-Udal. Colossians, c. 1. In which she shew'd, how that discourteous knight At so exampless, and unblamed a life, B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act ii. sc. 4. Those their pure unblamable spirits, which live not only in heaven, but in their writings, they must attaint with new attaintures, which no Protestant ever before aspers'd them with.-Milton. Bucer. Of Divorce. To the Parlament. For the whole religion of a Christian is to live unblame ably; that is, in all holiness and purity of conversation. Dryden. Don Sebastian, Act i. sc. 1. Unblameableness of life, an untainted pureness of manners, it defends the person and confirms the office; as cleanliness, it both refreshes, and, at the same time, also strengthens the body.-South, vol. vii. Ser. 4. There were slaine of ye Persians & Arabians ten thou- Making as deep, although unbleeding wounds; Daniel. To Sir T. Egerton. This hath brought B. Jonson, K. James's Entertainment. Petilius Cerealis by appointment of Vespasian succeeding, had to doe with the populous Brigantes in many battails, and som of those, not unblondie. Milton. History of Britaine, b. ii. Who finds the partridge in the puttocks nest, But may imagine how the bird was dead, Although the kyte soare with vnbloudied beake? Euen so suspitious is this tragedie. Shakespeare. 2 Pt Hen. VI. Act iii. sc. 2. But thus unlaurel'd to descend in vain, Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, c. 1. Soon, by righteous judgment, in the line Cowper. Task, b. v. Having no blame or cause of blame; no stain or spot, to sully, taint or tarnish-the original soundness, fairness or purity. UNBLE MISHING. The next day after. being the 4 of July, the LL. general caused the town of Cadiz to be set on fire, and rased and defaced so much as they could, the faire cathedral church, and the religious houses only being spared, and left vnblemished-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 618. Said Arthegall; what foule disgrace is this, To so faire lady, as yee seeme in sight, To blot your beauty, that voblemisht is, With so foule blame, as breach of faith once plight, Spenser, Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 11. That undeflour'd and unblemishable simplicity of the ghospel, not she her self, for that could never be, but a false-whited, a lawny resemblance of her, like that air-born Helena in the fables, made by the sorcery of prelates, instead of calling her disciples from the receit of custom, is now turn'd publican herself. Milton. Reason of Church Government, b. ii. c. 3. From charcoales blown I know sparkes leap apace, but though straw-houses may enkindle by them; yet upon solid coverings they without danger dye; or if at most they leave a mote behind, it is but dead, and with the next fair wind unblemishing blowes away.—Feltham. Ser. on Luke, xiv. 20. UN-BLENDED. Not mixed or mingled. Neither can any [element] boast of a knowledge, which is depurate from the defilement of a contrary, within this atmosphear of flesh; it dwells no where in unblended proportions on this side the Empyreum. Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 7. But the mistake of those who thus took offence at a weeping Saviour arose from considering him solely in the high character of his unblended divinity. Knox, vol. iv. Ser. 27. UN-BLESSED. Į Having no bliss, happiUNBLE'SSEDNESS. ness, or felicity, no pleasure or prosperity, bestowed, proffered or promised; having happiness or felicity withheld or denied. An euerlasting supper of al bitternes & vnblessednes wherof they maye eate and be partakers altogether. Udal. John, c. 20. So vp he rose, and thence amounted streight, Beaum. & Fletch. Two Noble Kinsmen, Act i. sc. 2. What peace was that which fell to rob the French by sea, to the imbarring of all our merchants in that kingdom? which brought forth that unblest expedition to the Isle of Rhee.-Milton. Answer to Eikon Basilike, § 9. High on an oak which never leaf shall bear, In such a world, so thorny, and where none UN-BLINDFOLD. Cowper. Task, b. iv. Not having the sight stopped or obstructed (by any thing folded or wrapped over the eyes). Which when as Cupid heard, he wexed wroth, He bade his eyes to be unblindfold both, The most unblushing impudence could hardly go farther than to affix the name of its plunderer to the walls of the Acropolis.-Byron. Childe Harold, c. 2. Note 6. They now begin with a villa, as if it were as necessary as a warehouse; and end with bankruptcy as naturally, as unreluctantly, and as unblushingly as if it had been the honourable object of their mercantile pursuit. Knox. Ess. No. 8. UN-BOA'STFUL. Not magnifying, exaggerating, vaunting, or displaying ostentatiously. Oft in humble station dwells Unboastful worth, above fastidious pomp. Thomson. Summer. UN-BODIED. Freed, loosed, parted or from body, or corporal, or material departed substance. Chaucer has the verb. Emong all this, the fine of the ieopardie Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. v. I neuer founde among them al one reason yet, wherby me thought it pued otherwise, but yt God may make the bodyly corporall water, able to worke vpon the vnbodyed incorporiall soule.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 387. Herevpon followed a feuer through increasing of a flegmatike humor bred by long rest, that after 14 moneths space vnbodied his ghost.-Holinshed. Hist. of Scotland. Conuall. Death with most grim and griesly visage seene, Yet is he nought but parting of the breath; Ne ought to see, but like a shade to weene, Vnbodied, vnsou.'d, vnheard, vnseene. Spenser, Faerie Queene, b. vii. c. 8. Thus all things are but alter'd, nothing dies; And here and there th' unbodied spirit flies, By time, or force, or sickness dispossest, And lodges, where it lights, in man or beast. Dryden. Of the Pythagorean Philosophy. UN-BOILED. Not seethed, not heated in water, (sc. to a degree called boiling heat.) Barley in the boyling swelleth not much; wheat swelleth more; rice extreamly; insomuch as a quarter of a pint (unboyled,) will arise to a pint boyled. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 857. UN-BOLT, v. To remove or withdraw the fastening or security; that by which any thing is UN-BLO'SSOMING. Not throwing forth or fastened or secured. expanding into-flower. UN-BLOWN. You may now give a third pruning to peach-trees, taking away and pinching off unblossoming branches. Evelyn. Kalendarium. May. Not bloomed or blossomed; not opened or expanded (as flowers). Then with an eye of mercy inform'd his judgment, How yet unripe we were, unblown, unharden'd, Unfitted for such fatal ends. Beaum. & Fletch. Humorous Lieutenant, Act ii. sc. 4. No sir, I hold my beauty, UN-BLOWN. Id. Love's Pilgrimage, Act iii. sc. 2. Not struck by wind, or air. Prodigious lamps by night unwet, And unblown out.-More. Life of the Soul, c. 2. § 118. UN-BLUNTED. Not stopped, not dulled. He lends him vain Golfah's sacred sword A sword whose weight, without a blow might slay, Cowley. The Davideis, b. ¡¡L Cres. Then sweet my lord, Ile call mine vnkle down; He shall unbolt the gates. Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act iv. sc. 2. UN-BOLTED. Not sifted or separated; gross. I will tread this vnboulted villaine into morter, and daube the wall of a iakes with him. Shakespeare. Lear, Act ii. sc. 2. UN-BO'NING, is Milton's own word; he means loosening or disjointing their bones. But since there is such necessity to the hear-say of a tire, a periwig, or a vizard, that plays must have bin seen, what difficulty was there in that? when in the colleges so many of the young divines, and those in next aptitude to divinity, have bin seen so often upon the stage, writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest gestures of trinculo's, buffoons, and bawds. Millon. Apology for Smectymnuus. They hastened to bespeak favour by hastily unbonneting, and proffering to hold the bridle and stirrup of the favoured retainer and his attendant.-Scott. Kenilworth, c. 7. UN-BOO'KISH. Not read, not learned in, not studious of books or literature. As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad: And his unbookish ielousie must construe Poore Cassio's smiles, gestures, and light behauiours Quite in the wrong.-Shakespeare. Othello, Activ. sc. 1. It is to be wonder'd how museless and unbookish they (the Spartans] were, minding nought but the feats of war." Milton. Of Unlicensed Printing. UN-BORE. UNBORN. See UNBEARING. Not brought forth, or produced (Sc.) into life; not carried or conveyed. For sothly whan that werre is ones begonne, ther is ful many a child unborne of his moder, that shal sterve yong, hy rause of thilke werre, other elles live in sorwe, and dien in wretchednesse.-Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus. Withdrawe the baner of thyn armes, And lete thy lightes ben vnborne.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. But well thei heiden all aboute The noise, of which thei were in doubte, As thei that wenden to be lore Of thinge, whiche than was vnbore.-Id. Ib. b. vi. Deare image of my selfe, she said, that is, The wretched sonne of wretched mother borne, Is this thine high advauncement? or is this Th' immortall name, with which thee yet unborne Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 4. Many a father repents him of his fruitfulness, and hath such sons as he wishes unborn; but to have so gracious and hopy a son, as the angel foretold, could not be less comfort than honour to the age of Zecharie. Bp. Hall. Cont. The Angel & Zechary. Behold the hand that wrought a nations cure, Pope. Imit. of Horace, b. ii. Ep. 1. UN-BORROWED. Not taken or received (upon security) from another; not drawn, derived, o deduced. Know this, my lord, nobility of blood Is filled with inborn worth, unborrow'd from his kind. Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Gray. The Progress of Poesy. UN-BO'SOM, v. To open the bosom; to unfold, to pour forth, to disclose the contents of the bosom'; to divulge, to reveal the feelings or passions, the affections, the desires of the heart. See UNBREAST. I, before all the daughters of my tribe And of my nation, chose thee from among Milton. Samson Agonistes. Or should I thence, hurried on viewless wing, Id. On the Passion of Christ. G. Fletcher. Christ's Victory & Triumph. Id. Christ's Triumph on Earth. I have hid my vexation from all mankind; but have now taken pen, ink, and paper, and am resolved to unbosom myself to you, and lay before you what grieves me and all the sex.-Spectator, No. 528. Could I embody, and unbosom now, That which is most within me,-could I wreak My thoughts upon expression. Byron. Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage, c. 3. UN-BOTTOMED. Having nothing to stand or rest upon; no foundation; loosed from the foundation. Who shall tempt with wandring feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. You are your own deceivers in it; gladly gulled with shadows of faith and repentance, false touches of sorrow, souls really unbottomed from themselves, and built upon and false flashes of joy, and are not careful to have your Christ; to have him your treasure, your righteousness, your all, and to have him your answer unto God your Father.-Leighton. Com. on 1 Peter, c. 3. UN-BOUGHT. Not procured, acquired, obtained by payment or purchase. If she in pens his flock will fold, Dryden. Horace, Epod. 2. See here an easy feast that knows no wound, That under hunger's teeth will needs be found; A subtle harvest of unbounded bread: What would ye more? here food itself is fed. Crashaw. Steps to the Temple. tions of the several properties of these things to one another. Finitude, applied to created things, imports the proporInfinitude, the unboundedness of these degress of properties. Cheyne. To thee, immortal maid, from this bless'd hour, O'er time and fame, I give unbounded pow'r. Thou from oblivion shalt the hero save; Shalt raise, revive, immortalize the brave. Congreve. To Lord Halifax. I cannot too often, nor too particularly, mention the unbounded and constant friendship of their priests. Cook. Third Voyage, b. v. c. 2. The mother tenderly affectionate and tenderly beloved, the friend unboundedly generous, but still esteemed, the charitable patroness of all distress cannot be forgotten by those whom she [Mad. de Stael] cherished, and protected, and fed.-Byron. Childe Harold, c. 4. Note 27. And when from sight or from the judgment-seat, The virtuous Scipio and wise Lælius met, Unbraced, with him in all light sports they shared, Till their most frugal suppers were prepared. B. Jonson. The Poetaster, Act v. sc. 1 He doth sit like an unbraced drum, with one of his heads beaten out.-Id. The Induction. The Stage. Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.-Spectator, No. 249. UN-BRA'IDed. Not knitted, plighted, wreathed. Clo. Beleeue mee, thou talkest of an admirable conceited fellow, has he any enbraided wares? Ser. Hee hath ribbons of all the colours i' th' rainebow. Shakespeare. Winter's Tale, Act iv. sc. 3. He found her in a white cymar of silk lined with furs, her little feet unstocking'd and hastily thrust into slippers; her unbraided hair escaping from under her midnight coif, with little array but her own loveliness. Scott. Kenilworth, c 7. Not deprived of brains. UN-BRA'INED. To brain is also so used. Hast thou ever hope To come i' the same roome where lovers are; And 'scape unbrain'd with one of their velvet slippers? Beaum. & Fletch. Wit at several Weapons, Act iv. UN-BRANDED. Not stamped or marked, (in token of degradation or debasement.) Against a persisting stubbornness, or the fear of a reprobate sense, [will be required] a timely separation from the flock by that interdictive sentence, lest his conversation unprohibited, or unbranded, might breathe a pestilential mur rain into the other sheep. Milton. Animad. upon the Remonst. Defence. UN-BREAST, v. Equivalent to unbosom, (qr.) Whose sharpest steel the bone and marrow parts, And with his keenest point unbreast the naked hearts. P. Fletcher. The Purple Island, c. 12. Couldst thou unmask their pomp, unbreast their heart, How would'st thou laugh at this rich beggerie ! And learn to hate such happy miserie ! Id. Pisc. Eclogues, Ec 4. Swift without motion, to whose open eye The hearts of wicked men unbreasted lie; At once absent, and present to them, far, and nigh. G. Fletcher. Christ's Triumph after Death, as may put his lungs in wholesome breathing; UN-BO'UNTEOUS. Not munificent, liberal, to give him wholesome exercise; and hence, w lavish, generous. Nay, such an unbounteous giver we should make him, as in the Fables Jupiter was to Ixion, giving him a cloud instead of Juno.-Milton. Tetrachordon. UN-BO'WED. Not bent, inclined, or declined; not stooped or submitted. And the last of his labors was, that he susteined the heauen, vpon his neck vnbowed.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. v. Confederates (So drie he was for sway) with king of Naples breathed is Not exercised, not exerted, not used or em ployed. Unbreathing,—not emitting breath or air. Ege. Hard handed men, that worke in Athens heere, Which neuer labour'd in their mindes till now; And now haue toyled their unbreathed memories With this same play, against your nuptiall. Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. se 1. Buck. No, so God helpe me, they spake not a word, But like dumbe statues, or [un] breathing stones, Star'd each on other, and look'd deadly pale. Id. Rich. III. Act iii. sc. 7. UN-BRED. Not well bred, well trained, weil Shakespeare. The Tempest, Act i. sc. 2. educated, (sc.) in good society. When fortune fled her spoil'd and favourite child, He stood unbow'd beneath the hills upon him pil'd. Byron. Childe Harold, c. 3. UN-BOWEL, v. See DEBOWel, Disembowel. To disclose, to expose, the inmost or most secret parts, the vital parts. It shall not bee amisse in this chapter, to vnbowell the state of the question, touching the world's decay. Hakewill. Apologie, b. i. c. 3. UN-BRACE, v. To free from hold, bond, or fastening; from that which tightens, strengthens, confines, restrains. To loosen, to relax, to remit. Than gan I there mine armes to unbrace, Chaucer. The Lamentation of Mary Magdalen. They [children] frequently learn from unbred or debauched servants such language, untowardly tricks and vices, as otherwise they possibly would be ignorant of all their lives, Locke. Of Education, § 65. My nephew's a little unbred, you'll pardon him, madam. Congreve. The Way of the World, Act iii. UN-BREECHED. Not having the breach clothed or covered; not wearing the covering on that part of the body called the breech, i. e. the part where the body breaks or separates: generally, the hinder part; and hence, to unbreech a cannon is to free the breech of it from its fastenings. |