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good, sending us from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, 
filling our hearts with food and gladness. Barrow . 
UNATTRA'CTED, adj. Not under the power of attrac¬ 
tion ; freed from attraction. 
Till again 
The tide revertive, unattracted, leaves 
A yellow waste of idle sands behind. Thomson. 
UNAVAILABLE, adj. Useless; vain with respect to 
any purpose.—When we have endeavoured to find out the 
strongest causes, wherefore they should imagine that reading 
is so unavailable, the most we can learn is, that sermons are 
the ordinance of God, the Scriptures dark, and the labour of 
reading easy. Hooker. 
UNAVA'ILABLENESS, s. Uselessness.—Doubting the 
unavailableness of those former inconveniences. Sir E. 
Sandys. 
UNAVAILING, adj. Useless; vain. 
Supine he tumbles on the crimson sands. 
Before his helpless friends and native bands, 
And spreads for aid his unavailing hands. Pope. 
UNAVE'NGED, adj. Not avenged; unrevenged.—They 
were by him and his heathen neighbours cruelly butchered ; 
yet not unavenged: for the governor, enraged at such 
violence offered to his strangers, slew those inhabitants, and 
burnt their village. Milton. 
UNAVI, a small river of the Caraccas, which joins the 
Arebato. 
UNAVOIDABLE, adj. Inevitable; not to be shunned. 
—It is unavoidable to all, to have opinions, without certain 
proofs of their truth. Locke. —Not to be missed in ratioci¬ 
nation.—I think it unavoidable for every rational creature 
that will examine his own, or any other existence, to have 
the notion of an eternal, wise being, who had no beginning. 
Locke. 
UNAVOIDABLENESS, s. Inevitably.—How can we 
conceive it subject to material impressions ? and yet the im 
portunity of pain, and unavoidableness of sensations 
strongly persuade that we are so. Glanville. 
UNAVOIDABLY, adv. Inevitably.—The most perfect 
administration must unavoidably produce opposition from 
multitudes who are made happy by it. Addison. 
UNAVO'IDED, adj. Inevitable. 
We see the very wreck that we must suffer; 
And unavoided is the danger now. Shakspeare. 
UNAUTHE'NTIC, adj. Not authentic; not genuine; 
not warranted.—Many odious, scurrilous, and treacherous 
libels were daily, by an unauthentic privilege, posted up, 
and published against him. Princely Pelican. 
UNAUTHORIZED, adj. Not supported by authority; 
not properly commissioned. 
To kiss in private ? 
An unauthorized kiss. Shakspeare. 
UNAWATCED, or Unawa'kened, adj. Not roused 
from sleep; not awakened. 
Strange! the theme most affecting, most sublime, 
Momentous most to man, should sleep unsung: 
And yet it sleeps by genius unawak'd, 
Painim or Christian, to the blush of wit. Young. 
UNAWARE, adj. [unpa;p, Sax. incautus.] Without 
thought; inattentive.—lam not unaware how the produc¬ 
tions of the Grub-street brotherhood have, of late years, 
fallen under many prejudices. Swift. 
UNAWA'RE, or Unawares, adv. [from the Sax. unpaep. 
See the adjective.] Without thought; without previous 
meditation. 
It is my father’s face, 
Whom, in this conflict, I unawares have kill’d. 
Shakspeare. 
Unexpectedly; when it is not thought of; suddenly.—Let 
destruction come upon him at unawares, and let his net 
that he hath hid, catch himself. Psalms. 
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UN A'WED, adj. Unrestrained by fear or reverence. 
Unforc’d by punishment, unaw'd by fear. 
His words were simple, and his soul sincere. Dry den. 
UNBA'CKED, adj. Not tamed; not taught to bear the 
rider. 
Then I beat my tabor; 
At which, like unback'd colts, they prick’d their ears, 
Advanc’d their eyelids, lifted up their noses, 
As they smelt music. Shakspeare. 
Not countenanced; not aided. 
Let the weight of thine own infamy 
Fall on thee unsupported, and unback'd. Daniel. 
UNBALANCED, adj. Not poised; not in equipoise. 
Let earth unbalanc'd from her orbit fly. 
Planets and suns run lawless through the sky. Pope. 
UNBALLAST, or Unba'llasted, adj. Not kept steady 
by ballast; unsteady. 
As at sea the unballast vessel rides. 
Cast to and fro, the sport of winds and tides: 
So in the bounding chariot toss’d on high. 
The youth is hurried headlong through the sky. Addison. 
UNBA'NDED, adj. Wanting a string, or band.—Your 
hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unbanded, and 
every thing demonstrating a careless desolation. Shak¬ 
speare. 
UNBAPTI'ZED, adj. Not baptized. 
To UNB'AR, v. a. To open by removing the bars; to 
unbolt. 
These rights the king refus’d. 
Deaf to their cries; nor would the gates unbar 
Of sacred peace, or loose th’ imprison’d war. Dry den. 
UNBARBED, adj. [barba, Latin.] Not shaven. Out 
o f use. 
Must I go shew them my unbarded sconce! 
Must my base tongue give to my noble heart 
A lie ? Shakspeare - 
UNBARXED, adj. Decorticated; stripped of the bark. 
—A branch of a tree, unbarked some space at the bottom, 
and so set in the ground, hath grown. Bacon. 
UNBA'SHFUL, adj. Impudent; shameless. 
Nor did I with unbashful forehead woo 
The means of weakness and debility. Shakspeare. 
UNBATED, adj. Not repressed; not blunted. 
You may choose 
A sword unbated. Shakspeare. 
UNBA'THED, adj. Not wet. 
Fierce Pasimond, their passage to prevent. 
Thrust full on Cymon’s back in his descent; 
The blade return’d unbath'd, and to the handle bent. 
Dryden. 
UNBA'TTERED, adj. Not injured by blows. 
I cannot strike at wretched kernes, whose arms 
Are hir’d to bear their staves: or thou, Macbeth; 
Or else my sword, with an unbatter'd edge, 
1 sheath again undeeded. Shakspeare. 
To UNBA'Y, v. a. To set open; to free from the re¬ 
straint of mounds. 
UNBEARABLE, adj. Not to be borne. 
UNBEA'RING, adj. [unbepenb, Sax. sterilis.] Bringing 
no fruit. 
He with his pruning hook disjoins 
Unbearing branches from their head, 
And grafts more happy in their stead. Dryden. 
UNBEATEN, adj. Not treated with blows. 
His mare was truer than his chronicle; 
For she had rode five miles unspurr’d, unbeaten, 
And then at last turn’d tail towards Neweaton. Bp Corbet. 
Not trodden. 
Virtue, to crown her fav’rites, loves to try 
Some new, unbeaten passage to the sky. Swift. 
UNBEAUTEOUS, 
