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The time was once when thou vnurg'd wouldst vow,
That neuer words were musicke to thine eare.

Shakespeare. Comedie of Errours, Act ii. sc. 2.

And noble Dolphin, albeit we sweare
A voluntary zeale, and an un-urg'd faith
To your proceedings.-Id. K. John, Act v. sc. 2.

For ill or good 't is madness to have prov'd
Dangers unurg'd; feed on this flattery,
That absent lovers one in th' other be.

UN-USED.
UNU'SEDNESS.
UNU'SUAL.

UNU'SUALLY.
UNU'SUALNESS.
UNU'SEFUL.

ordinary course.

Donne. Elegy on his Wife. Not practised, employed, accustomed.

Unusual,-not customary; not commonly or frequently practised or done; not common or frequent, or in the

Unuseful,-without use; useless.

You that know death liues, where power lies vnusde, Joying to shine in waues that burie you, And so make way for life euen through your graues. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 670. Indeed these most filthy abominations, euen in our common wealth, be not altogether inusuall.

Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 585. Comparing the unusedness of this act with the unripeness of their age, seeing in general conjecture they could do it for nothing that might not fall out dangerous: he was somewhile troubled with himself.-Sidney. Arcadia, b. vii.

They saw before, the pillar of his ordinary presence: now they see him unusually terrible. Bp. Hall. Cont. Searchers of Canaan. Wether his rage and covetousnesse had so transported him, that he had no leasure to observe the unnaturall unusualnesse of the event.-Id. Ib. Of Balaam.

The vnusualnesse of the reuelations in those corrupted times was such, that Gideon might thinke of any thing rather than an angell.-Id. Ib. Gideon's Calling.

Thier. Mine eyes when she is nam'd Cannot forget their tribute, and your gift Is not unuseful now.

Beaum. & Fletch. Thierry & Theodoret, Act iv. Softening thus the vigor of his sex, [thou] engraftest into that tender age a superfluous love of riches, and dost perswade him to the pursuit of those things which are totally unuseful.-Evelyn. Golden Book of St. Chrysostom.

Conquest and triumph, now, are mine, no more;
Nor will I victory in camps adore:

For, lingering there, in long suspense she stands,
Shifting the prize in unresolving hands;
Unused to wait I broke through her delay,
Fix'd her by force, and snatch'd the doubtful day
Congreve. Mourning Bride, Acti.
All other goods without it [happiness] are insignificant
and unuseful thereto; and it cannot be wanting where piety
is.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 6.

Mark no man; question no man; for the sight
Of strangers is unusual here, and cold

The welcome by this people shewn to such.

Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. vii.

In the stomach they [grass and hay] are softened by the gastric juice, which in these animals is unusually copious. Paley. Naturai Theology, c. 16.

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The most unutterable coward that e'er nature
Blest with hard shoulders, which were only given him,
To the ruin of bastinados.

Beaum. & Fletch. Thierry & Theodoret, Act ii.
Gons. Dear madam, speak, or you'll incense the king.
Alm. What is't to speak? or wherefore should I speak?
What means these tears, but grief unutterable?
Congreve. Mourning Bride, Activ.

I believe few parents would wish their sons to live the life of Cowper, which, though virtuous and amiable, was at certain times, unulterably woeful.

Knox. Remarks on Grammar Schools.

See his mortified looks, his troubled gestures! see the bloody sweat! strange symptom of the unuttered pangs that rend his righteous heart!-Bp. Horsley, vol. ii. Ser. 19.

UN-VULGAR. Not popular or common, or usual among the people; not common.

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And as the cogitations of princes farre differ from those of the vulgar; so their dreams are unvulgar and different. Sandys. Ovid. Metam. Illust. See INVULNERABLE.

UN-VULNERABLE.
That cannot be wounded.

With the consent of supreame Joue, informe
Thy thoughts with noblenesse, that thou mayst proue
To shame vnvulnerable, and sticke i' th' warres
Like a great sea marke standing euery flaw,
And sauing those that eye thee.

Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act v. sc. 3. UN-WAITED. Not watched, observed, or

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Which th' only sound Of leaves and fuming rills, Aurora's fan, Lightly dispers'd, and the shrill matin song Of birds on every bough; so much the more His wonder was to find unwaka'd Eve With tresses discompos'd, and glowing cheek, As through unquiet rest.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v. Vnwakened with the tumult of this fray, Dissolv'd in death-like sleep, Aphidus lay Vpon a beares rough hide on Ossa kild.

Sandys. Ovid. Metam. b. xii. UN-WALLED. Not fortified by wall, (qv.) not fortified or secured.

There was onely so much of this streight vnwalled, as might serue for the issuing of the horsemen, or the passing of caryage in time of neede. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 541. Jedworth, [is] a towne which after the manner of the countrie is vnwalled and vnfensed, but onelie with the strength of the inhabitants.

Holinshed. Historie of Scotland, an. 1572. Welcom as peace t' unwalled cities, when Famine and sword leave them more graves than men.

Beaum & Pietch. Faithful Shepherdess, Prol. (1633.) Santa Cruz it self is a small unwalled town fronting the sea, guarded with two other forts to secure the road. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1699. UN-WANDERING. Not moving or going from place to place; not roving or straying. He loos'd them from the yoke, Gave them ambrosial food, and bound their feet With golden tethers not to be untied

Or broken, that unwand'ring they might wait Their lord's return, then sought the Grecian host. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xiii. UN-WANTED. Not needed; not required or sought for; not desired or coveted. You seem much surprised. Osm. At your return so soon and unexpected. Zara. And so unwish'd, unwanted too, it seems. Congreve. Mourning Bride, Act iii.

The disciples of Jesus were not in so low a state of religion as is here described; but as they were yet only young in their profession, it may be supposed a lesson on this subject could not have been unwanted by them. Gilpin, vol. Iv. Hint 3. Grose says,- Wapper'd, i. e. restless or fatigued, is spoken of a sick person, in Gloucestershire. Unwappered may be,-unwearied; not fatigued.

UN-WA'PPERED.

We come towards the gods
Young, and unwapper'd, not halting under crimes
Many and stale.

Beaum. & Fletch. Two Noble Kinsmen, Act v. sc. 4.

UN-WA'RDED, i. e. unguarded, (qv.)

There was one Tiriotes, whiche during thys mourning & lamentacion, escaped by a gate that was vnwarded, & fled vnto the Persians campe, where he was by the watchemen brought to Darius presence.-Brende. Quint. Curt. fol. 81.

UN-WARE. UNWA'RELY. UNWARENESS. UNWA'RILY. UNWA'RINESS.

See UNAWARE. Not looking at, or after; not prudent or provident, heedful, careful, cautious, watchful, vigilant.

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Anone for thy this same tyde

Lepe on thy hors, and let vs ride,

So maie we knowe both two

Unwarely what our wiues do,

And that shall be a trewe assaie.-Id. Ib. b. vii.

And for the Cristen hoost shuld be assuryd from the sodayne & vnware assautes & reprochis of the infidelles, therfore he closyd theym without a strength of dyche and pale.-Fabyan. Chron. Lowys IX. an. 24.

How many haue we seene, that the chances of fortune coulde not abate, and yet within a shorte whyle after estarenesse with greatte ignominious shame hath ouerthrowe them! Golden Boke, Let. 4.

With whiche stroke the kynge was sodeynly feryd, thynkynge his enemyes hadde commen enwarelye vpon hym.-Fabyan. Chron. Charlys VII. an. 14.

The morning next following he did set vpon them alss at vnwares.-Holinshed. Historie of Scotland. Ederuo.

One day as I unwarily did gaze

On those fayre eyes my loues immortall light:
The whiles my stonisht hart stood in a maze,
Through sweet illusion of her lookes delight.

Spenser, s. 16.

For such who are careful (as they call it) to principle children well (and few there be who have not a set of those principles for them, which they believe in.) instil into the unwary, and as yet unprejudiced understanding (for white paper receives any characters) those doctrines they would have them retain and profess. Locke. Hum. Underst, b. i. c. 3

Two of our men were ordered to attend him; but one of them unwarily trusting the Indian with his firelock and pistol, the Indian escaped with them into the woods. Anson. Voyages, d. ifi. c. 2.

The same temper of mind which inclines us to a desire of fame, naturally betrays us into such slips and unwarinesses, as are not incident to men of a contrary disposition.

Spectator, No. 256. UN-WA'RLIKE. Not warlike; not having the qualities or dispositions requisite for war, for offence or defence.

He safely might old troops to battle lead
Against th' unwarlike Persian and the Mede,
Whose hasty flight did, from a bloodless field,
More spoils than honour to the victor yield.
Waller. Panegyric to Oliver Cromwell.
Not heated, inflamed, ani-

UN-WA'RMED. mated, inspirited.

Upon this cup what ever may compel

By powerful charm, and unresisted spell,

A heart unwarm'd to melt in love's desires,

Distill into this liquor all your fires.

Beaum. & Fletch. Humourous Lieutenant, Act iv. sc. &. Car. But of what marble must that breast be form'd, To gaze on Bazzet, and remain unwarm'd ?

Pope. Basset Table. UN-WARNED. Not put upon guard or defence; not cautioned or admonished. See UNWARE.

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And oft conducted by historic truth,

You tread the long extent of backward time. Planning, with warm benevolence of mind, And honest zeal unwarp'd by party-rage. Britannia's weal.

UN-WA'RRANTABLE.

UNWA'RRANTABLY. UNWA'RRANTABLENESS. UNWA'RRANTED.

Thomson. Spring.

as

Not to be (or not being) sured or secured, authorized or

sanctioned; permitted, or excused.

As for his knightly form, and the dragon under him, as he is pictured in Beryth, a city of Cyprus, with a young maid kneeling to him, an unwarrantable report goes, that it was for his martial delivery of the king's daughter from the dragon.-Drayton. Poly-Olbion. Illustrations, s. 4.

O Saviour, even our well-meant zeale in seeking and Inioying thee, may be faulty; if we seek thee where we should not, on earth; how we should not, unwarrantably. Bp. Hall. Cont. The Resurrection.

Who in both the tenets of episcopacy by divine right, and the unwarrantablenesse of lay presbytery, agrees so fully with me, as I do with my self.

Id. Answer to Vindication of Smectymnuus, § 3. This is their doom written, and the utmost that we find concerning them in these latter days; which we have much more cause to believe, than his unwarranted revelation here, prophesying what shall follow after his death, with the spirit of enmity, not of St. John.

Milton. Answer to Eikon Basilike, § 28.

Several of the petty princes of the most southerly of the unwasted provinces were compelled to pay very heavy rents and tributes, who for a long time before had not paid any acknowledgment.

Burke. Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts, (1785.)

UN-WATCHED. UNWA'TCHFUL.

Not wakefully or vigilantly looked after or observed or attended to,

UNWA'TCHFULNESS. heeded, guarded, or regarded.

Of all these dooeth our enemye leaue not one thynge vnwatched, whereby he maye drawe vs to damnation. Udal. Luke, c. 4.

But when he sells or changes land, h' impairs
His writings, and, unwatch'd, leaves ot ses heirs.

Donne, Sat. 2. They are cold in their religion, indevout in their prayers, incurious in their walking, unwatchful in their circumstances.-Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 20.

Too many are very much subject, by reason of their unwatchfulness, and not staying themselves in this point, though not to profane, yet to vain, and it may be, to detrac tive speeches.-Leighton, Com. on 1 Peter, c. 3.

UN-WAVERING.

UN-WATERED. Not wetted or watered. Than I will that the said xxiiii. peces of fleshe be altered vnto saltfyshe, or stokfyshe, unwatered and unsodeyn. Fabyan. Chronycle. The Will. Not moving to and fro If they did (as most certainly they did) then either the unsteadily, unsettledly; steady, settled. same disparity of jurisdiction must be retained, or else we must be governed with an unlawful and unwarranted equality, because not by that which only is of immediate divine institution.-Bp. Taylor. Episcopacy Asserted, §9. I have hinted something above of the strange lengths which have been run, and of the unwarrantable excesses which some late systems of the eucharistic sacrifice manifestly abound with.-Waterland. Works, vol. viii. p. 180.

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And the Farisees and summe of the Scribis camen fro Jerusalem togidir to him, and whanne thei hadden seen summe of hise disciplis ete bred with unwayschen hondis thei blameden.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 7.

And the Pharises came together vnto him, & diuerse of the Scribes which came fro Jerusalem. And when they saw certayne of his disciples eat breat wt cômen handes (yt is it. to say, wt unwashen handes) they complayned. Bible, 1551. Ib. To sytte vpon an unwashed seate, doeth not defyle the mynde of a man, lyke as the washed seate, doeth not make pure and cleane hym that sytteth in it. Udal. Matthew, c. 15. Observe that the Scribe finds fault with the suspition of blasphemy: the Pharisee, with unwashen hands.

Bp. Hall. Pharisaisme & Christianitie.

Or when the fleece is shorn, if sweat remains
Unwash'd, it soaks into their empty veins.

Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, 3.

I dare not pour, with unwash'd hands, to Jove
The rich libation forth; it cannot be,
That I should supplicate, thus foul with stains
of gory battle, the tempestuous God.

UN-WA'STED. UNWA'STING.

Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. vi. Not desolated, demolished, consumed, expended, squandered, exhausted; not uselessly or lavishly employed.

After whom euer in my herte, with thursting desire weete I doe brenne, vnwastyng I langour and fade and the daie of my destinie. in death or in ioye I vnbide, but yet in the ende I am comforted bee my supposaile in blisse, and in ioye to determine after my desires. Chaucer. Testament of Loue, b. iii.

The rockes so many yeeres unwasted spirit
He fills her with, and comming to inherit
A Delphian brest, nere fill'd he prophetesse
Fuller: her former minde he banishes,
And bids all women from her brest be gone.

May. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. v.

O! let me not lanch out, but let me save
Th' expense of brain and spirit: that my grave
His right and due, a whole unwasted man may have.
Donne. Progress of the Soul, s. 1.

Purest love's unwasting treasure,
Constant faith, fair hope, long leisure;
Days of ease, and nights of pleasure;

Sacred Hymen! these are thine.-Pope. Chorus to Brutus.

And on this occasion she wrote the king a letter (which these noblemen seem to be the carriers of) chiefly to shew how unwavering she continued in her formerly declared purpose about religion. Strype. Eccles. Mem. Edw. VI. an. 1551. UN-WA'YED. Not moving or used to move on the road (or way).

Beasts that have been rid off their legs, are as much for a man's use, as colts that are unwayed, and will not go at all. Suckling. Not allured, withdrawn,

UN-WEA'NED.

disengaged.

Thus wing'd with haste she came, and with like haste The virgin-nurse, enfolding in her arms His yet unwean'd and helpless little one, Fair as the star of morn.-Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. vi. Thus we acquire a powerful attachment; an unweaned affection for peculiarities which have no other claim upon us, but from the force of habit. Cogan. Ethical Treatise, Disq. 3. §2. UN-WEAPONED. Not having or wearing, not being prepared with arms of offence or defence.

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The Irish espieng the opportunitie rushed into the court in plumps, where surprising the enweaponed multitude, they committed horrible slaughters by sparing none that came vnder their dint.

Holinshed. Chron. Description of Ireland, c. 3. Who would not have thought, a worse time could never have beene pickt for Israels warre, than now? In the feeblenesse of their troopes, when they were wearied, thirsty, unweaponed.-Bp. Hall. Cont. Foyle of Amalek. But when he saw the man gainst whom he fought Vnweaponed, still stood he in the field.

Fairefax. Godfrey of Bovlogne, b. vii. c. 94. Mar. He's more a slaue than fortune Or misery can make me that insults Upon unweapon'd innocence.

Massinger. The Bondman, Act iv. sc. 4.

UN-WEARY.
UNWE'ARIED.
Not worn, or worn out,
UNWE'ARIEDly. tired, fatigued, exhausted of
UNWE'ARIABLE. strength, or power of action.

UNWE'ARIABLY.

When Whittlewood betime th' unwearied muse doth win
To talk with her a while.-Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 23.

Some cry from tops of houses; thinking noise
The fittest herald to proclaim true joys;
Others on ground run gazing by his side,
All, as unwearied, as unsatisfied.

B. Jonson, Panegyre on James II. This maketh them, through an unweariable desire of receiuing instruction from the masters of that companie, to cast off the care of those verie affaires which doe most concerne their estate, and to thinke that then they are like vnto Marie, commendable for making choyce of the better part. Hooker. Ecclesiastical Politie, Pref. Oh, let us spend our selves in prayers, in teares, in perswasions, in unweariable indevours for the happy conversion of those ignorant misguided soules, who having not our knowledge, yet shame our affections.

I do much congratulate the exemplary practice of the eminent divines of our own, and the neighbour churches, actuated by the unweariable endeavours of our worthy an never-enough commended Duræus. Bp. Hall. The Peace-Maker, § 5

Oh then, let us earnestly and unweariably aspire thither and think all the time lost, that we employ not in the endeavour of making sure of that blessed and eternal inhe ritance.-Id. The Christian's Assurance of Heaven.

And for the act which remains of the opera, I believe I shall have no leysure to mind it, after I have done what 1 proposed: for my business here is to unweary my selfe, after my studyes, not to drudge.

Dryden. Letter to Mr. J. Tonson. Sep. 1684. And some, with whom compar'd your insect tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, rul'd the storm Of mighty war; then, with unwearied hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seiz'd

The plough, and greatly independent liv'd.

Thomson. Spring.

Thus they labour unweariedly the ruin one of another: and too frequently, rather than fail of it, will risque, of even contrive, the ruin of the whole.-Secker, vol.v. Ser. 14. UN-WEAVE, v. To remove or undo the intertexture; to unfold.

Custom that wrought so cunningly on nature
In me that I forgot my sex, and knew not
Whether my body female were, or male,
You did unweave, and had the power to charm
A new creation in me.

Beaum. & Fletch. Love's Cure, Act v. sc. 3.
So subtle and so curious was the measure,
With so unlook'd for change in ev'ry strain;
As that Penelope wrapp'd with sweet pleasure,
When she beheld the true proportion plain
Of her own web, weav'd and unwear'd again,

Davies. On Dancing.

They fill not their brains with notions that signifie nothing, to the utter extermination of all reason and common sense, and spend not an age in weaving and unweaving subtil cobwebs, fitter to catch flies than souls; therefore they have no deep knowledge in the acroamatical part of learning! Chillingworth. Religion of Prot. Pref. UN-WED. Not joined, united, bound, (in marriage;) not married; not inseparably attached.

And lecherie he sente
Amonges alle manere men. wedded and unweddede.
Piers Plouhman, p. 397.
ben of the lord, that sche be hooli in body & spyryt.
A woman unweddid and maiden thenketh what thingis
Wiclif. 1 Cor. c. 7.

Ela, whiche thought his kynge to plese,
As he, that than unwedded was,
Of Constance all the pleine cas,

As goodly as he couth, tolde-Gower. Con. 4. b. ii.
Adri. This seruitude makes you to keepe vnwed.
Shakespeare. Comedie of Errours, Act ii. sc. 1.
Then swarming came
From Erebus the shades of the deceas'd,
Brides, youths unwedded, seniors who had liv'd
Long time familiar with oppressive cares,
And girls, afflicted never till they died.

Cowper, Homer. Odyssey, b. xi
Do you not find that joy within the breast
Of the unwedded man is soon suppress'd;
While to the bosom of a wife convey'd,
Increase is by participation made.

Crabbe. Tales of the Hall, b. x And there was one soft breast, as hath been said, Which unto his was bound by stronger ties Than the church links withal: and though unwed, That love was pure, and, far above disguise.

UN-WE'DGEABLE.

or cloven.

Byron. Childe Harold, c. 3. That cannot be split

Mercifull heauen,

Thou rather with thy sharp and sulpherous bolt
Splits the-vn-wedgable and gnarled oak
Than the soft Mertill.

Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Act ii. sc. 2. UN-WEE'DED. Not freed or cleared from weeds; not cleared from any thing noxiously or uselessly overgrowing or overspreading.

Fie on't? Oh fie, fie, 'tis an unweeded garden
That growes to seed; things rank, and grosse in nature
Possesse it meerely.-Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act i. sc. 2.
Not shedding or dropping

UN-WEEPING.(tears). Not lamented o

Bp. Hall. St. Paul's Combat, pt. 1. deplored with tears.

We hold no obiits, no sad exequies,

Upon the death-days of unweeping eyes.

Drayton. Duke Humphry to Elenor Cobham. Daugh. Our fatherlesse distresse was left vnmoan'd, Your widdow-dolour, likewise be vnwept.

Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act ii. sc. 2.

"And had not that great Hart (whose honour'd head,
Ah! lies full low) pity'd thy woful plight;
There had'st thou lain unwept, unburied,
Unbless'd nor grac'd with any common rite."

P. Fletcher. Purple Island, c. 1.

UN-WEETING. Į Not knowing, or per

UNWEE TINGLY.

or intending.

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She [Poverty] likewise represented to him the several advantages which she bestowed upon her votaries in regard to their shape, their health, and their activity, by preserving them from gouts, dropsies, unwieldiness, and intemperance. Spectator, No. 464.

When I consider the weight of a man's body, the eswieldiness of wings sufficiently large to buoy him up, and the inability of his arms to flutter them fast enough. I cannot conceive the possibility of his ever practising that manner of travelling. Search. Light of Nature, vol. i. pa. i. e. 14.

UN-WILLING. UNWILLINGLY. Not scourged or lashed; not UNWILLINGNESS.

UN-WHIPT. Sceiving, or understanding, beaten with whip or scourge.

To frame all well, I am content
That it were done unweetingly;
But yet I say, (who will assent,)

To do but well, do nothing why
That men should deem the contrary.

Wyat. That the Eye beurayeth, &c.

From thence a Faerie thee vnweeting reft,
There as thou sleptst in tender swadling band,
And her base Elfin brood there for thee left.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. 1. e. 10.

They only set on sport and play
Unweetingly importun'd

Thir own destruction to come speedy upon them.
Millon. Samson Agonistes.

"Have I so long

Employ'd my various art, t' enrich the lap
Of Earth, all bearing mother; and my lore
Communicated to the unweeting hind,
And shall not this preeminence obtain ?"

J. Philips. Cerealia. UN-WEIGHED. Not put upon the baUNWEIGHING. lance; not measured by any standard quantity; (met.) not deliberated. Unweighing, (met. )—not deliberating.

And Salomon left al the vesselles vnwayed, for the exceadinge abundaunce of brasse that was in them. Bible, 1551. 3 Kynges, c. 7.

Duke. Wise? Why no question but he was.
Luc. A very superficiall, ignorant, unweighing fellow.
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Act iii. sc. 2.

Another writer says, that with a royal magnificence, she order'd him [Virgil] massy plate, unweigh'd to a great value.-Dryden. Life of Virgil.

UN-WELCOME. Į Not well, not grateUNWELCOMENESS. fully, pleasingly come; not grateful, pleasing, acceptable.

Ev. I thank your grace, you have prepar'd me strongly, And my weak mind.

Queen. Death is unwelcome never,

Unless it be to tortur'd minds and sick souls,
That make their own hells.

Beaum. & Fletch. Wife for a Moneth, Act ii.

But, together with that unwelcome news you send me, what does much to alleviate the unwelcomness of it, when you acquaint me with your pious and generous resolution, to prosecute the good work he was engaged in with the same christian aim (the glory of God, and the good of souls) which, I am confident, made him active in it. Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 43. Merit distress'd, impartial Heav'n relieves Unwelcome life relenting Phoebus gives. Pope. Statius. Thebaid, b. i. However we may labour for our own deception, truth, though unwelcome, will sometimes intrude upon the mind. Idler, No. 80. UN. WE'MMED. Not spotted, blotted, blemished, defiled.

Now he hath recounceilid ghou in the bodi of his fleisch bi deeth, to haue ghou hooli and unwemmyd and withoute reproofe bifore him.-Wiclif. Colocencis, c. 1.

A cleen religioun and an unwemmyd anentis God and the Fadir is this, to visite fadirles and modirles children and widewis in her tribulacioun, and to kepe himsilff undefoulid fro this world. Id. James, c. 1.

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Lear. Let the great Goddes That keepe this dreadfull pudder or'e our heads, Finde out their enemies now. Tremble thou wretch, Thou hast within thee vndivulged crimes Vnwhipt of iustice.-Shakespeare. Lear, Act iii. sc. 2. Once (and but once) I caught him in a lie, And then, unwhipp'd, he had the grace to cry. Pope. Im. of Horace, Ep. 2. UN-WHOLESOME. Į Not conducing to, UNWHO'LESOMENESS. bestowing or preserving, soundness (or health); not healthy, salutary, or salubrious; injurious to health.

And raine so vnholesome, that if the water stand a little while, all is full of wormes, and falling on the meat which is hanged vp, it maketh it straight full of wormes. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 99.

But there by reason of the vnwholesomnesse of the aire, and corruption of the waters in the hote time of the yeere, he with Lawrence Chapman and some other English men vnhappily died.-Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 396.

The aire and mists (quoth he [Homer] and that right truly) arising from a great river betimes in a morning before day-light, cannot choose but be ever cold and unholesome. Holland. Plinie, b. xviii. c. 6. The Romans were much annoied with the vnwholesomnesse of the waters which they were forced to drinke. Holinshed. Historie of England, b. iv. c. 22. For even in the coldest climates the sea is warm, and in the hottest climates the rain is cold and unwholesome for man's body.-Dampier. Voyages, an. 1688.

Apulia part of Italy, near the Adriatick gulf, where land, it seems, was very cheap, either for the barrenness and cragged heighth of the mountains, or for the unwholsomness of the air, and the wind Atabulus.

UN-WIELD. UNWIELDY. UNWIELDINESS. UNWIELDSOME.

Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 4. Note 4.

Not easy to manage or command; to use, to move, to exert in action; too bulky or heavy for action or motion.

Age vnweldie may not fight nor flee.

Chaucer. Remedie of Loue, Prol.

Our olde limes mow wel ben unwelde,
But will ne shal not faillen, that is sothe.

Id. The Reves Prologue.
The wine can make a creple sterte,
And a deliuer man unwelde.

It maketh a blynde man to behelde,
And a bright eied seme derke.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii.
Thus said the aged man, and therewithall,
Forceless he cast his weak unwieldy dart.

Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. il. But for the most part they are very unwieldy and vnactiue withall.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 496.

Mountaines of yce tenne thousand times scaping them scarce one ynch, which to haue stricken had bene their present destruction, considering the swift course and way of the ships, and the unwieldinesse of them to stay and turne as a man would wish.—Id. Ib. vol. iii. p. 79.

Meane-while the saluage man, when he beheld
That huge great fool oppressing th' other knight,
Whom with his weight vnwieldy downe he held,
He flew vpon him, like a greedy kight
Vnto some carrion offered to his sight.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 8. [Augustus] out of a wholsome state-maxim, as som say, to moderate and bound the empire from growing vast and unweildie, made no attempt against the Britains. Milton. History of Britain, b. ii.

To what a cumbersome unwieldiness
And burthenous corpulence my love had grown.
Donne. Love's Diet.

Alexander being ready to take his journey to go conquer India, perceiving that his army was very heavy and unwieldsome to remove, for the wonderfull carriage and spoils they had with them: the carts one morning being loaden, he first burn this own carriage and next his friends, and then commanded that they should also set the carriage of the Macedonians on fire.-North. Plutarch, p. 582.

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Having no will, wish, or desire; no disposition or inclination; involuntary;

not wishing or desiring, disposed or inclined; indisposed, disinclined, reluctant, averse.

Who so liste to reade the chapiter, shall see that I wrote it not all in vaine, nor shewe my selfe unwilling that the priestes should doe it neither, though they bee not bonden to it.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1030.

They began to pytie theire owne case, which comming out of Macedon, were past the riuer of Euphrates, amongst ye midst of their enemies, that rnwillingly received their newe gouernment.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 301.

After which the said masters mate would not proceed in that voiage, and the owner hearing of this misfortune, and the unwillingnesse of the masters mate, did send downe one Richard Deimond.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 184.

My shaking flesh be thou a witness for me,
With what unwillingness I go to scourge
This rayler, whom my folly hath call'd friend.

Beaum. & Fletch. Maid's Tragedy, Act iii. Which deferring, as it must needs be the argument of am evil man, and an indication of unwillingness to live worthily, so it can serve really no prudent ends to which it can fallaciously pretend.-Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, d. ii. c. 3.

Mighty cities storm'd,

Or laws establish'd, and the world reform'd:
Clos'd their long glories with a sigh, to find
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

Pope. Im. of Horace, Ep. 1.

I reason very unwillingly, and not without a certain awe on my mind, when I presume to speak of what God may or may not do, as familiar as this practice is to many.

Bolingbroke. Minutes of Essays, § 77

We were not a little surprized to see them jump over board; without a moment's hesitation; all except one man, who, loitering behind, and shewing some unwillingnes te obey, Kaneena took him up in his arms, and threw him inte the sea.-Cook. Third Voyage, b. v. c. 1.

UN-WIND, v. Į To turn or twist back; to UNWINDING. revolve, to evolve, to return; to move back, the folds or involutions.

Then, turning backe vnto that captiue thrall,
Who all this while stood there beside them bound
Vnwilling to be knowne, or seene at all,
He from those bands weend him to haue entround.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. e. §.

I would roll myself for this day; in troth, they should not unwind me.-B. Jonson. Silent Woman, Act ii. sc. 2.

Not that I see through his perplexed plots,
And hidden ends; nor that my parts depend
Upon the unwinding this so knotted skean,
Do I beseech your patience.

Id. Staple of News, Act v. sc. 1. He that hath wedded any falshood, hath many prejudices against the contrary truth; and these are not to be torn of all at once, but softly, and by degrees to be unwound.

Glanvill, Ser. 2.

Zara. We may be free, the conqueror is mine!
In chains, unseen, I hold him by the heart,
And can unwind and strain him as I please.

Congreve. Mourning Bride, Act L

UN-WINGED. Not having wings; not fur. nished with limbs for flight; with appendages to the sides in manner of wings.

And so did she, (as she who doth not so)
Conjecture Time unwing'd, he came so slow.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. UN-WINKING. Not dropping or casting down, (sc. the eyelid), not ceasing to wake or watch.

Every pleasure which is innocent in itself and in its censequences ought to be admitted, with a view to render less disagreeable that unwinking vigilance which a delicate and sensible father will judge necessary in the care of a daughter. Knoz. Ess. No. 17.

All your anxious care, all your unwinking vigilance to preserve you from your great adversary.—Id, vol. vi. Ser. 19

UN-WIPED. Not cleared (by moving conLinuity of touch); not moved over in continued Pontact.

"The mind, you know, is like a table-book,

The old unwip'd new writing never took."-Donne, Sat.6. Nor do those crosses, that seem due to his anger, destroy he immutability of his love, since even that anger is an ffect of it, proceeding from a fatherly impatience of seeing spot nwiped off, in the face he loves too well to see a blemish in it.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 274.

During the time you eat observe some grace,
Nor let your unwip'd hands besmear your face.

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Congreve. Ovid. Art of Love, b. iii.

UN-WISE. Not knowing, intelligent, unUNWI'SELY. derstanding; not having or UNWI'SDOM. possessing; not according or agreeable to knowledge, understanding, prudence, experience, sound judgment; not judicious, not skilful.

Strong of strengthe, but fallyng & vnwys in his doynges.
R. Gloucester, p. 521.
Biried he is at Repyndon, & in the kirke he lis.
He that wille not bowe in skille, I hold him enwis.
R. Brunne, p. 9.
For thou has ille sonnes, foles & vnwise.—Id. p. 219.
This Reseamiraduk, als fole & vnwise,
His letter gan rebuk, sette it at light prise.-Id. p. 246.
And seyntys of Rome

Wenten forth in hure way. wit meny unwyse tale.
Piers Plouhman, p. 2.
Then wroghte we unwisliche. for al goure wyse techynge.
Id. p. 195.

And britheren I nyle that ghe unknowe that ofte I purposide to come to ghou and I am lett to this tyme that I haue aum fruyt in ghou as in othere folk is to Greekis, and to barbaryns to wise men and to unwise men I am dettour. Wiclif. Rom. c. 1. And he seide to hem ye ben unwise also? undirstondun ye not that al thing which outforth that entrith into a man may not defoule him?-Id. Mark, c. 7.

And thei weren fulfillid with unwisdom: and spaken togider what thei schulen do of Jhesus.-Id. Luk, c. 6.

He was with love vnwise constreigned,
And she with reason was restreigned.

Gower. Con. A. b. iv.

Whan so unwisely they conceiued,
Their rich treasour, and their heale,
Their famous name, and their weale,

To put in such an auenture.-Chaucer. Dreame. King Solomon, whiche was beside himselfe for women. and of ye most rnwise, oftentimes as cursing his wicked deeds, hee fiercelie rebuketh women.

Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. ii. c. 14. And wee vnwiselie and after the common opinion, esteeme virtues, calling him liberal that is a waster: and him bold that is fool-hardy; and eloquent that is a great babbler; and wittie, that is vnconstant.-Id. Ib. b. i. c. 14.

Lord! how I gan in wrath unwisely me demean!

Surrey. Having defied the Power of Love, &c. Vnwise and wretched men to weet what's good or ill, We deeme of death as doome of ill desert; But knew we fooles, what it vs brings vntill Die would we daily, once it to expert.

Spenser Shepheard's Calender. Nov.

That a nation should be so valorous and corageous to win their liberty in the field, and when they have won it, should be so heartless and unwise in their counsels, as not to know how to use it, value it, what to do with it, or with themselves.-Milton. Way to estab, a Free Commonwealth.

The unwise virgins were no profligate livers, and yet they were shut out.-Glanvill, Ser. 1.

Telemachus! it were a deed unwise,
To sojourn longer here, thy fair demesnes
Abandon'd, and those haughty suitors left
Within thy walls.-Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. xv.

But if intemperately, unwisely, fatally, you sophisticate and poison the very source of government, by urging subtle deductions, and consequences odious to those you govern, rom the unlimited and illimitable nature of supreme overeignty, you will teach them by these means to call that sovereignty it self in question.

Burke. On American Taxation,

UN-WISH, v. Į To recal a wish; to wish any
UNWI'SHED. thing-before wished for-to

be denied, or taken away.

Not looked desirously after, not desired.

Her. So will I grow, so liue, so die my lord,

Ere I will yeeld my virgin patent vp

Vnto his lordship, whose vnwished yoake,

My soule consents not to giue soueraignty.

Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dreame, Act i. sc. 1. VOL. II.

To desire there were no God, were plainly to unwish their own being; which must needs be annihilated in the substraction of that essence, which substantially supported them, and restrains them from regression into nothing. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 10. You seem much surprised. Oxm. At your return so soon and unexpected! Zara. And so unwish'd, unwanted too, it seems. Congreve. Mourning Bride, Act iii. UN-WIST. See UNWISE. Not known, thought, understood, perceived, conceived.

Who that trauaileth unwist, and coueiteth thing vnknowe, vnweting he shal be quited, and with vnknowe thing rewarded.-Chaucer. Testament of Loue, b. iii.

So on a morrow forth unwist of any wight,

I went to prove how well it would my heavy burden light. Surrey. Having defied the Power of Love, &c. Of hurt unwist most danger doth redound.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 2. Then of them all she plainely was espide To be a woman-wight (vnwist to bee) The fairest woman-wight that euer eye did see

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Id. Ib. c. 9. sisted or opposed.

"Such vertue hath this cloth on which we sit," Said he, "that where in this world us be list, Suddenly with the thought shallen thither flit, And how thither come to us unwist."

UN-WIT. UNWITTING.

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UNWITTINGLY. UNWITTY.

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Browne. Shepheard's Pipe, Ecl. 1. Unwit,-ignorance, folly. Unwitting, not knowing or kenning, perceiving, discerning, judging, or adjudg

And seyde woman unwittylich. wrougt hast thow ofte. Piers Plouhman, p. 44.

I am maad unutti, ghe constreynyden me, for I oughte to be commendid of ghou, for I dide no thing lesse than thei that ben apostlis aboue maner.-Wiclif. 2 Corynth, c.12. [Him] that made me coueiten and purchace Mine owne death, him wite I, that I die, And mine unwit that ever I clambe so hie.

Chaucer. Com. of Mars & Venus. The sayd Constance of pure deuocion that he hadde to God and seyn Amphiabyll, made hym selfe a monke, vnwyllynge the kyng his fader, and other his frends. Fabyan. Chronycle, c. 81. A gentilman, one of the counsayle of kyng Xerxes named Zopirus, a man of notable wysedome, vnwyllynge to any personne, dyd cutte of his owne eares and nose, and pryuely departed towarde Babylon.

Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. iii. "Thou blinded god," quoth I. "forgive me this offence, Unwittingly I went about, to malice thy pretence." Surrey. Having defied the Power of Loue, &c.

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But if an alphabetical servility must be still urged, it may so fall out, that the true church may unwittingly use as much cruelty in forbidding to divorce, as the church of antichrist doth wilfully in forbidding to marry.

Milton. Duct. & Disc. of Divorce, b. i. c. 14.

I crave your lordship's pardon, your sudden apprehension on my steps made me to frame an answer unwilling and unworthy your respect. Beaum. & Fletch. Honest Man's Fortune, Act ii.

How now, Ovid! Law cases in verse? Ovid. In troth I know not; they run from my pen unwittingly, if they be verse.-B. Jonson. Poetaster, Act i. sc.1.

I know not whether Lewis the Eleventh shewed himselfe unwitty, but in the charge which hee gave to his sonne, to learne no more Latine, but, Qui nescit dissimulure, nescit vivere: and would this alone teach him to rule well? Bp. Hall. Quo Vadis, § 10. This man was wanton and merry, unwittily and ungracefully merry.-Cowley.

UN-WITCH, v. To remove the effects of witchcraft or sorcery; to disenchant.

And there are not a few who are persuaded for certaine, that even the very serpents as they may bee burnt by enchauntment, so they can unwitch themselves.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxviii. c. 2.

I was fascinated, by Jupiter; fascinated; but I will be unwitch'd, and revenged by law.

B. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act iii. sc. 7. Not drawing back or away; not depriving, retaining, or restraining. Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth, With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please, and sate the curious taste! Milton. Comus.

UN-WITHDRAWING.

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Id. English Votaries, pt. ii. That he might himself match with Dinoth's daughter Ursula, and with her a competent multitude of virgins might be sent over to furnish his unwiv'd batchelors.

Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 10. Selden. Illust.

Crot. Had this sincerity been real once, My Orgilus had not been now unwived, Nor your lost sister buried in a bride-bed.

Ford. The Broken Heart, Act ii. sc. 2. UN-WOMANLY. Not becoming or suiting a

woman.

So inward shame of her vncomely case
She did conceiue, through care of womanhood,
That though the night did couer her disgrace,
Yet she in so vnwomanly a mood,
Would not bewray the state in which shee stood.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 8.
Enrag'd with madness, scarce she speaks a 'vord,
But flies with eager fury to my face,
Offering me most unwomanly disgrace.

Daniel. Complaint of Rosamonă. But, what was this; when she, whose wicked deeds Vnwoman'd her, in our lost grace succeeds?

Sandys, Ovid. Metam. b. ii. Not used or accustomed; not habitual or customary; not in the usual or cus

UN-WONT, adj. UNWO'NTED. UNWO'NTEDNESS. tomary mode or manner.

Who was more puft up with pryde and more arrogant sure and sorrowelesse then was the Kynge? but at this heauy unwont syght how trembled he?

Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 5.

At length foorth cometh Zacharie, with a countenance in dede, shewing an unwoont gladnesse, but the use of his speach clene taken from him.-Udal. Luke, c. 1.

They put the Macedones in feare, troublynge with their unwonted crye, not onely the horse that naturallye do teare them (the elephants] but also amazed the men, and distourbed their order.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 249.

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Not worn, not affected, not decayed or impaired by use.

So that six thousand years together hath this great machine stood, always one and the same, unimpaired in its beauty, unworn in its parts, unwearied and undisturbed in its motions.- Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 6.

In the morning of our days, when the senses are unworn and tender, when the whole man is awake in every part, and the gloss of novelty fresh upon all the objects that surround us, how lively at that time are our sensations, but how false and inaccurate the judgments we form of things. Burke. On the Sublime & Beautiful, Introd. Not to think or deem worthy; not to respect or regard as worthy;

UN-WO'RSHIP, v. UNWO'RSHIP, n. UNWO'RSHIPFUL.

to think unworthy; not to honour or revere, or make or perform offerings or offices of honour or reverence; not to honour; to dishonour.

Thou that hast glorie in the lawe. unworschipist [inhonoras] God bi brekyng of the lawe.-Wiclif. Romayns, c. 2.

"Why than," (quod I) "suffre ye soche wronge, and moun whan ye list, lightly all soche yuels abate, me semeth to you it is a great vnwurship." Chaucer. Testament of Loue, b. ii.

Yet this wicked Nero had great lorshippe. And yafe whilome to the reuerent senatours the unworshypfull seates of dignities.-Id. Boecius, b. iii.

The kinge answerd, it waes to smalle

For him, whiche was a lorde rialle,

So yeue a man so litell thinge.

It were unworship in a kynge.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii.

Great quantite of Cristen people [were] put to deth, and the holye seruyce of God lefte, and holye churche vnworshyppyd & vnhonouryd, wt many great enormyties. Fabyan. Chron. Edw. III. an. 1339. He resolv'd

With all his legions to dislodge, and leave
Unworshipt, unobeyed, the throne supream.

UN-WORTH.

UNWORTHY.

UNWO'RTHILY.

INWORTHINESS.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v. Not deserving, or meritorious; not valuable, or estimable; not equivalent, or adequate.

"Syre gong bacheler," he sede, "wel we wytyth thys, That thow art strong & corageus, & nogt vnwurthe also The vorste chyualerye in the batayle to do."

R. Gloucester, p. 453.

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But preue a man hymsilf, and so ete he of thilk breed & drynke of the cuppe. for he that etith and drynkith unwor

thili, etith and drynkith doom to him, not wiseli demynge the bodi of the Lord.-Wiclif 1 Corynth, c. 11.

Let a man therfore examen him selfe, and so let hym eate of the breade and dryncke of the cup. For he that eateth or drincketh vnworthely, eateth and drincketh his owne damnació, because he maketh no difference of ye Lordes body.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Wondering upon this thing, quaking for drede,
She saide; Lord, indigne and unworthy
Am I, to thilke honour, that ye me bede.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8236.

And connynge, wherby onely man excelleth all other creatures in erthe, they reiecte and accoumpte unworthy to be in theyr chyldren.—Sir T. Elyol. Governour, b. i. c. 12.

Who either thinking too worthily of the Spaniards valure, too indifferently of his purposes against vs, or too vnworthily of them that vndertook this iourney against him, did thinke it a thing dangerous to encounter the Spaniard at his owne home.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol ii. p. 135.

For oure unworthynes cannot altare the substance of Gods sacramente, that is euermore all one, howesoeuer we swarue frome worthines to unworthines.

Bp. Gardner. Explication, fol. 82. Many things might be noted on this place not ordinary, nor unworth the noting.-Milton. Tetrachordon.

Tho Madan reign'd, vnworthy of his race:
For, with all shame that sacred throne he fild:
Next Memprise, as vnworthy of that place.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 10.

If it [jesting] mingles with any sin, it puts on the nature of that new unworthiness, beside the proper ugliness of the thing it self; and after all these, when can it be lawful or apt for Christian entertainment?-Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 23.

The generality of the wisest heathens thought it agreeable to reason, to make use of subordinate intelligences, dæmons or heroes, by whom they put up their prayers to the superiour gods; hoping that by the mediation of those intercessours, the unworthiness of their own persons, and the defects of these prayers might be supplied; and they might obtain some merciful and gracious answers to their prayers, as they could not presume to hope for upon their own account.-Clarke. On the Evidences, Prop. 13.

This being the case, imagining that God can enjoin religious cruelties, or fail to be displeased with them, is thinking so unworthily and absurdly of him, that few things are more surprising, than the wide extent and long prevalence of so monstrous an error.-Secker, vol. iii. Ser. 18.

UN-WOUNDED. Not hurt or injured; not

damaged.

Woundlesse armour, vnwounded in war, do rust through long peace.-Spenser. Shepheards Calender. October, Gloss. Lean. You make him blush: it needs not sweet Ascanio,

We may hear praises when they are deserv'd,
Our modesty unwounded.

Beaum. & Fletch. Spanish Curate, Acti. se. 1.
They fought, nor can our hero boast the event,
For Hector from the field, unwounded went.

Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xiii. Therefore, should a pow'r From Heav'n approach to try thee, with the gods Contend not; but should Venus interfere, Her chase, and not unwounded, back to Heav'n. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. v. UN-WRAP, v. To remove the wrappings or foldings; to unfold, to disclose.

Thou haste yeuen or beheight me, to vnwrappe the hidde causes of thinges, and to discouer me the reasons, couered with darknesse.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. iv.

O scathful harm, condition of poverte,

With thirst, with cold, with hunger so confounded,
To asken helpe thee shameth in thin herte,
If thou non ask, so sore art thou ywounded,
That veray nede unwrappeth al thy wound hid.
Id. Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4524.

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UN-WREATH, v. To untwine or untwist.

continually wreath and unwreath themselves, according to

The beards of wild oats, and of divers other wild plants,

the temperature of the ambient air-Bogle.

UN-WRECKED. Not afflicted, dashed against, or to pieces; and consequentially, not ruined or destroyed.

Let them for her sake,
Who to thy safeguard doth herself betake,
Escape undrown'd, unwreck'd.

Drayton. Upon Lady Aston's departure for Spain. UN-WRINKLED. Not having the smooth even surface distorted; not roughened or rumpled; not wrested or drawn into furrows or indented lines.

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Sometimes, as if in doubt,
Not perfect yet, and fearing to be out.
Trains her plain ditty in one long spun note,
Through the sleek passage of her open throat

A clear unwrinkled song.-Crashaw. Musick's Duel.
All-circling point, all-centring sphere,
The world's one, round, eternal year,
Whose full and all-unwrinkled face
Nor siuks nor swells with time or place.

Id. In the glorious Epiphany of Lord God.

The face

Of thy cave-guarded spring, with years unwrinkled,
Reflects the meek-eyed genius of the place.

Byron. Childe Harold, c. 4. UN-WRITTEN. Not written; not formed or framed, graved or impressed-in literal characters or letters; not composed in letters.

Prechours that this shewen Or prechen inparfit, ypult out of grace Unwryten for som wikkednesse, as holy writ sheweth. Piers Ploukman, p. 194.

Iren. It [the Brekon law] is a rule of right unwritten but delivered by tradition from one to another, in which oftentimes there appeareth great shew of equity, in determining the right betweene party and party, but in many things repugning quite both to Gods law and mans.

Spenser. View of the State of Ireland. Equity is a certain perfect reason that interpreteth and amendeth the law written, itself being unwritten, and consisting in nothing else but right reason.

Hobbs. Of the Common Laws of England.

The lex non scripta, or unwritten law, includes not only general customs, or the common law properly so called: tut also the particular customs of certain parts of the kingdom: and likewise those particular laws, that are by custom observed only in certain courts or jurisdictions.

Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. Introd. UN-WROUGHT. Not worked; not formed by work or labour; not operated.

Yet is an idole in dede nothing els, but either a piece of tymber, or a stone, and hathe no more Godhead in it, than an other vnsquared piece of tymber, or an enwrought stone. Udai. 1 Cer. c. 8.

A ravell'd wound distain'd her purer brest, (Brests softer farre than tufts of unwrought silke.) Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. £. 4.

But as the merchant, when he receives large summas, always takes it by weight, so they usually pay him anwrought gold, and quantity for quantity.

Dampier. Voyages, vol. ii. c. 7. UN-WRUNG. Not strained: not twisted strictly or tightly; not twisted, distorted, wrested. Your maiestie, and wee that haue free soules, it touches vs not let the gall'd iade winch our withers are entrang. Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 2.

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Alexander lefte his footemen to subdue suche as were yet unyelden, and went forwardes with his horsemen into other partes. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 216.

Here were no tricks of inferences, no quirks of sophismes, no violent deduction of unyeelded sequels? Bp. Hall. Christian Moderation, d. ii. § 11. But Areite's men, who now prevail'd in fight, Twice ten at once surround the single knight: O'erpowr'd at length, they force him to the ground, Unyielded as he was, and to the pillar bound.

Dryden Palemon & Arcite, d. ini. For Spain is compass'd by unyielding foes. And all must shield their all, or share Subjection's woes. Byron, Childe Harold, c. 1

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