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Those tint think it is vnlairful business I am about, let They will quaffe freely when they come to the house of 
ti,*mdm' Shut \V. T.,v.3.06. a Christian ; insomuch as I have seen lint few goe away 
,. , .,, .'. unled from the emlmssadours table. 
2. Begotten out of wedlock ; illegitimate. Sandys, Travailes, p. 51. 
filial:, A. and C., iii. fl. ".-Unlawful assembly, unlefult, See imleirful. 
i^, m .^ 
a meeting contemplating riotous acts and in such man- sure, occnpiea. Mr J. . staney. 
Her as to give firm and courageous persons in the neigh- The hasty view of an unleamr'd licencer. 
horhood of such assembly reasonable grounds to appre- Milton, Areopagitica, p. 31. 
peace in consequence of it. Tech- - , 
hen unleisuredness (un-le'zhurd-nes), M. Want of 
leisure ; the state of being occupied. Boyle, 
hend a breach of the peace in coi 
nically it ceases to be termed an unlawful assembly when 
the unlawful act is executed, the offense then being not, 
or when some steps are taken toward the execution of It, 
the offense then being deemed a rout. Syn. Illegal, Illi- 
cit. etc. See lawful. 
unlawfully (un-la'ful-i), adt'. 1. In an un- 
lawful manner; in violation of law or right; il- 
legally. 2. Illegitimately; not in wedlock. 
fihak., M. forM., iii.l. 196. 
unlawfulness (un-la'ful-nes), n. 1. The char- 
acter or state of being unlawful ; illegality ; 
contrariety to law. 
The unlawfulness of lying. South, Sermons. 
2. Illegitimacy. 
unlay (un-la'), v. t.; pret. and pp. unlaid, ppr. 
unlaying. [< w- 2 + /n.'/ 1 .] Haul., to untwist, 
as the strands of a rope. 
unlead (un-led') ( . t. [< wii- 2 + lead"*.] In 
printing, to remove the leads from (composed 
types). 
unleal (un-leT), n, [Early mod. E. (Sc.) also 
mileill ; < ME. mnlele, hmmlele; < un-1 + leal.] 
Not leal; disloyal, HulUwell (under homilele). 
' 
unlimited 
Being vnlike in troth of Religion, they must nertes be vn- 
like in honestie of liuing. 
Aicham, The Scholemaster, p. 84. 
2f. Not likely; improbable; unlikely. 
It ne is nat an unlyk myracle to hem that ne knowen it 
nut. Chaucer, Boethius, iv. prose 6. 
It is not vnlike that the Britons accompanied the Cim- 
brians and Gaules in those expeditions. 
Hakluyt's Voyage*, II. 1. 
Unlike quantities, in main., quantities expressed by 
different letters or combinations of letters, or by the same 
letters with different exponents. Unlike signs, the signs 
plus (+) and minus ( ). 
- ' - " ' a like or similar 
Works, II. 251. f 
unless (un-les'), coiij. [Early mod. E. also - unlike (un-llk'), adv. Not in 
lesse, n/itess, onlesse, onlcs, earlier onlessc that, on manner; not like or as. 
Jesse tliat (that being ultimately dropped, as Oft have I seen the haughty cardinal . . 
with for, coni., lest, etc.). a phrase analogous Swear like a ruffian and demean himself 
to at least, at most, etc. : see on 1 and less 1 . Cf. Vnlike the ruler of a commonweal. 
lest.] 1. If it be not that; if it be not the 
case that; were it not the fact that; if ... 
not ; supposing that . . . not. 
It is not possible for all things to be well, unless all 
men were good : which I think will not be yet these good 
many years. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), i. 
Unless thou tell'st me where thou had'st this ring, 
Thou diest within this hour. 
5Aa*:., All's Well, v. 3. 284. 
You should not ask, 'less you knew how to give. 
Beau, and Fl., Laws of Candy, ii. 1. 
SAafr.,2Hen. VI., i. 1. 189. 
unlikelihood (un-llk'li-hud), n. The state of 
being unlikely or improbable ; improbability. 
Thus much may suffice to shew the unlikelihood or rather 
impossibilitie of the supposed comming of our Saxon an- 
cestors from elsewhere into Germanic. 
Versteijmi, Rest, of Decayed Intelligence (ed. 1628), p. 39. 
The extreme unlikelihood that such men should engage 
in such a measure. Paley, Evidences, iii. 8. 
unlikeliness (nn-lik'li-nes), ". [< ME. mili/Mi/- 
nesse; < unlikely + -ness.} 1. The state of 
being unlikely ; improbability. 
There are degrees herein, from the very neighbourhood 
of demonstration quite down to improbability and un- 
KkeKness. . Locke. 
2. The state of being unlike; dissimilarity. 
2f. For fear that ; in case ; lest. 
Beware you do not once the same gainsay, 
Unless with death he do your rashness pay. 
unlearn '(un-lern'), -. [< ^ + learn.] i <Hri^l.^l^^tatto^^S^ L ^^t^^^^Cbriit "SIS! 
trans. 1. To discard, put away, or get nd ot have the force of 'except, r 'but for': as, tip. Halt, U jmplations, W 
(what one has learned) ; forget the knowledge Here nothing breeds 
Unless the nightly owl. 
Shak., Tit. And., ii. 3. 97. 
Let not wine, 
Unless in sacrifice or rites divine, 
Be ever known of shepherds. 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, v. 5.] 
=Syn 
onym 
apart. 
osition. Except introduces an exception to a statement 
which is otherwise general : it may be followed by a clause 
when connection is made by a particle, as when, that, as, 
while, or especially another preposition : the omission of 
such connective makes the structure archaic. Unless in- 
troduces a clause, or the abbreviation of a clause, indicat- 
of. 
When I first began to learn to push, this last winter, my 
master had a great deal of work upon his hands to make 
me unlearn the postures and motions which I had got, by 
having in my younger years practised back-sword, with a 
little eye to the single falchion. Steele, Tatler, No. 17a 
2f. To fail to learn ; not to learn. Dr. H. More. 
II. intrans. To put away acquired know- 
ledge ; become ignorant. 
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes, 
And climbing backward to diviner Youth. 
Lowell, Parting of the Ways. 
Strange in its utter unlikeliness to any teaching, Plato- 
nist or Hebrew. Kinffsley, Hypatia, xxi. 
3f. Unattractiveness; the incapacity to excite 
liking or love. 
I that God of Loves servaunts serve, 
Ne dar to love for myn unliklynesse. 
Chaucer, Troilus, i. 16. 
.. Except, Unless. Except could once Ire used as a syn- Tm iji,plv din Hk'li) (I K ME nnlikelil mt- 
for unless, but the words have now drawn entirely un , 1 , 1Ke y ( , 1 ,., ,'' i -t L a t' 
Union is only a conjunction -except is only a prep- likly ; < M"- 1 + likely.] 1. Such as cannot be 
unlearnability (uii-ler-na-bil'i-ti), . 
-I- learn + -ability.] Inability to learn. 
[< ttH-1 
[Bare.] ing a limitation or condition. 
-. . . . 
You will learn how to conduct it [the camera], with the UnlCSSOned (un-les'nd) fl. Not taught ; not in- 
pleasure of correcting my awkwardness and unlearnaMl- structed. ShaK., M. of V., 111. 2. Ibl. [Kare.J 
ity. Walpole, Letters (1777), iv. 85. unlettedt, a. [< ww- 1 + letted, pp. of W 2 .] Not 
unlearned (un-ler'ned), fl. [< ME. unlefned; prevented; unhindered. 
< nit- 1 + learned.] 1. Not learned ; ignorant ; Unlrtted of every wight. The Isle of Ladies, 1. 1831. 
illiterate; not instructed ; inexperienced. unlettered (un-let'erd), fl. Unlearned; 
But how it semethe to syinple men unlcrned that men 
ne mowe not go undre the Erthe, and also that men 
, 
scholde falle toward the Hevcne, from undre ! 
un- 
taught; ignorant; illiterate. Milton, Comus, 
1. 174.=Syn. Illiterate, Unlearned, etc. See ignorant. 
'Mandenlle, Travels, p. 184. unletteredness (un-let'erd-nes), M. The state 
2. Not suitable to a learned man : not becom- 
ing a scholar. 
I will prove those verses to be very unlearned, neither 
savouring of poetry, wit, nor invention. 
Shak., L. L. L., iv. 2. KIR. 
3 (un-lernd'). Not gained by study; not known; 
not acquired by investigation. 
Y as were 
of being unlettered. 
unlevefult, a. [ME., also unlrfiil, nnleffnl ; < 
OTi-l + Icreful.] Unlawful. 
I deme it felony and unleeefiil. 
Chaucer, Koethiiis, v. prose 3. 
A longyng vnleffull light in his hert 
Gert hym hast in a hete, harmyt hym after. 
They learned mere words, or such things chiefly as were ... ,,/!, , vri 
better unlearned. Milton, Education. Unlevel (Ull-lev 1), fl. Not level, I neven. 
reasonably expected; improbable: as, an tin- 
likely event. 
That it wrung his conscience to condemn the Earle of 
high Treason is not unlikely. Milton, Eikondklastes, ii. 
2. Not holding out a prospect of success or of 
a desired result ; likely to fail ; unpromising. 
A very unlikely envy she hath stumbled upon against 
the princess's unspeakable beauty. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. 
A strange unlikely errand, sure, is thine. 
M. Arnold, Balder Dead, I. 83. 
3f. Not calculated to inspire liking or affec- 
tion ; not likable or lovable. 
Whan I eonsidere youre beautee, 
And therwithal the unlikly elde of me. 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 936. 
unlikely (un-llk'li), adv. In an unlikely man- 
ner; with no or little likelihood; improbably. 
The pleasures . . . not unlikely may proceed from the 
discoveries each shall communicate to another. Pope. 
unlikent (un-li'kn), r. 1. To make unlike; 
feign ; pretend. Wyclif. 
11. Want of resem- 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 13686. unlikeneSS (un-lik'nes), 
blance; dissimilarity. 
Unlearned Parliament. Same as Partiam^tfD^ce's unlevel (n-lev'l), r. /. To make not level or And he supplied my want the more 
(which see, under parliament). = Syn. 1. Illiterate, Unlet- uneven. [Kare.J 
lere.d, etc. See iijnorant. It Wa8 so plain as there was scarcely any bush or nil 
unlearnedly (un-ler'ned-li), oaf. In an un- lock either to unlevel or shadow it 
A country squire, with the equipage of a wife and two 
In an un- 
learned manner; so as to exhibit ignorance; sir P- Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
ignorantly. Sir T. More, Works, p. 1037. unlicensed (un-li'senst), fl. 1. Not licensed; not 
unlearnedness (un-ler'ned-nes), n. Want of 
learning; illiterateness. Sylrester, tr. of Du 
Bartas's Weeks, ii., Eden. 
unleash (un-lesh'), r. t. [< - 2 -I- leash.] To 
free from a leash, or as from a leash ; let go. 
In chase of imagery unleashed and coursing. 
Stedman, Poets of America, p. 301. 
unleavet, " [< - 2 + leaf 1 , leave 9 .] I. trans. 
To strip of leaves. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. 
Poesie, iii. 25. (Davics.) 
II. intrans. To lose leaves, as a tree ; become 
bare. [Bare.] 
Of amorous Myrtles, and immortal! Bays 
Never vn-leao'd. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., Eden. 
unleavened (un-lev'nd), . Not leavened: as, 
unleavened bread; hence, not affected as if by 
leaven, 
unlectured (un-lek'turd),fl. 1. Not addressed 
in, or as if in, a lecture or lectures. 2. Not 
taught or inculcated by lecture. [Bare.] 
A science yet unlectured in our schools. 
young, Night Thoughts, v. 518. 
unled (un-led'),. Not led; without guidance ; 
hence, in command of one's faculties. 
As his iinlikenesft fitted mine. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Ixxix. 
unlimber 1 (un-lim'ber), fl. [< un- 1 + limber 1 .] 
Not limber; not flexible; not yielding. Kir H. 
Wotton. 
having a license : as, an unlicensed innkeeper. unlimber 2 Jun-lim'br), r. ^ [< H-2 + limler?.] 
2. Done or undertaken without, or in defi- 
ance of, due license or permission: as, an un- 
licensed traffic. 
unlicked (un-likf ), a. Not licked ; not brought 
to proper shape by licking : from the old pop- 
ular notion that the she-bear licked her cubs 
I. trans. To detach the limbers from ; take off 
the limbers of: as, to unlimber guns. 
II. intrans. To detach the limbers from the 
guns. 
The battery unlimbers and whirls its black-muzzled 
guns to the front. Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 788. 
intoshape; hence, ungainly ; raw; nnmanner- unlime (un-lim '),v.t. [< - 2 + Kwc 1 .] To re- 
ly; uncultivated. move the lime from, as from hides sufficiently 
treated with it. Pop. Sci, Mo., XXXIV. 287. 
daughters, 
oh gad ! two such unlicked cubs ! 
Congreve, Old Bachelor, iv. 8. 
Illimitable. 
unlimitablet (un-lim'i-ta-bl), 
Milton, Eikonoklastes, xxviii. 
unlightsomet (un-lit'sum), fl. Dark; gloomy; unlimited (un-lim'i-ted), rt. 1. Not limited; 
wanting light. 
First the sun, 
A mighty sphere, he framed, unlightsome first. 
Milton, P. L., vii. 354. 
[< ME. unlit, unlich, tmilich, 
unlike (un-lik'), a. 
< AS. ungelic (= OFries. milik = G. ungleich = 
Icel. filikr = Sw. olik = Dan. ulig), < MW-, not, 
+ gelic, like: see like^.] 1. Not like; dissimi- 
lar; diverse; having no resemblance. 
What occasion of import 
Hath all so long detain'd you from your wife, 
And sent you hither so unlike yourself ? 
Shak., T. of the S., iii. 2. 106. 
having no bounds ; boundless. 
So unlimited is our impotence . . . that it fetters our 
very wishes. Boyle. 
The unlimited, though perhaps not indefinite, modifl- 
ability of matter. Huxley, Anat. Invert, p. 41. 
2. Undefined ; indefinite ; not bounded by 
proper exceptions. 
With gross and popular capacities, nothing doth more 
prevail than unlimited generalities, because of their plain- 
ness at the first sight. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
3. Uiiconfiued ; not restrained; not restricted. 
An unguarded, unlimited will. Jer. Taylitr. 
