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A sword, whose weight without a blow might slay ; 
Able, unblunted , to cut hosts away. Cowley. 
UNBLU'SHING, adj. Not having sense of shame; with- 
out blushing, 
They crowd to the buzz 
Of masquerade unblushing. Thomson. 
UNBOA'STFUL, adj. Modest; unassuming; not boasting. 
Oft in humble station dwells 
Unboastful worth, above fastidious pomp. Thomson. 
UNBO'DIED, adj. Incorporeal ; immaterial.—If we 
could conceive of things as angels and unbodied spirits do, 
without involving them in those clouds language throws 
upon them, we should not be in danger of such mistakes as 
are perpetually committed. Watts. —Freed from the body. 
All things are but alter’d, nothing dies; 
And here and there th’ unbodfd spirit flies. Dryden. 
UNBOILED, adj. Not sodden.—A quarter of a pint of 
rice unboiled, will arise to a pint boiled. Bacon. 
To UNBO'LT, v. a. To set open ; to unbar. 
I’ll call my uncle down ; 
He shall unbolt the gates. Shakspeare. 
UNBO'LTED, adj. Coarse; gross; not refined, as flower 
by bolting or sifting.—I will tread this unbolted villain into 
mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. Shakspeare. 
UNBQ'NNETED, adj. Wanting a hat or bonnet. 
This night, wherein 
The lion, and the belly-pinched wolf 
Keep their fur dry; unbonneted he runs, 
And bids what will, lake all. Shakspeare. 
UNBOOKISH, adj. Not studious of books.—It is to be 
wondered how museless and unbookish they were, minding 
nought but the feats of war. There needed no licensing of 
books among them. Milton. —-Not cultivated by erudition. 
As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad ; 
And his unbookish jealousy must construe 
Poor Cassio’s smiles, gestures, and light behaviour. 
Quite in the wrong. Shakspeare. 
UNBO'RN, adj. [ungebopen, Sax.] Not yet brought 
into life 5 future; being to come. 
Some unborn sorrow; ripe in fortune’s womb, 
Is coming tow’rd me. Shakspeare. 
UNBO'RROWED, adj. Genuine ; native; one’s own. 
But the luxurious father of the fold. 
With native purple, and unborrow'd gold, 
Beneath his pompous fleece shall proudly sweat. Dryden. 
To UNBO'SQM, v. a. To reveal in confidence. 
I lov’d thee, as too well thou knew’st; 
Too well, unbosom'd all my secrets to thee. 
Not out of levity, but overpower’d 
By thy request, who could deny thee nothing. Milton. 
To open; to disclose. 
Should I thence, hurried on viewless wing, 
Take up a weeping on the mountains wild. 
The gentle neighbourhood of grove and spring 
Would soon unbosom all their echoes mild. Milton. 
UNBO'TTOMED, adj. Without bottom ; bottomless.— 
The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss. Milton. 
Having no solid foundation ; having no reliance.—This is 
a special act of Christian hope, to be thus unbottomed of 
ourselves, and fastened upon God, with a full reliance, trust, 
and dependence on his mercy. Hammond. 
UNB'OUGHT, adj Obtained without money.—The un¬ 
bought dainties of the poor. Dryden. —Not finding any 
purchaser.—The merchant will leave our native commodities 
unbought upon the hands of the farmer, rather than export 
them to a market, which will not afford him returns with 
profit. Locke. 
UNBO'UND, adj. Loose; not tied; wanting a cover: 
Vox.. XXIV. No. 1646. 
used of books.—He that has complex ideas, without particular 
names for them, would be in no better case than a bookseller, 
who had volumes that lay unbound, and without titles; 
which he could make known to others, only by shewing the 
loose sheets. Locke. —Preterite of unbind. —Some from their 
chins the faithful dogs unbound. Dryden. 
UNBQ'UNDED, adj. Infinite; interminable. 
The unreal, vast unbounded deep 
Of horrible confusion. Milton. 
Unlimited; unrestrained. 
He was a man 
Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking 
Himself with princes. Shakspeare. 
UNBOUNDEDLY, ado. Without bounds; without 
limits.—So unboundedly mischievous is that petulant mem¬ 
ber, that heaven and earth are not wide enough for its range, 
but it will find work at home too. Gov. of the Tongue. 
UNBOUNDEDNESS, s. Exemption from limits.—Fini- 
tude, applied to created things, imports the proportions of 
the several properties of these things to one another. Infini¬ 
tude, the unboundedness of these degrees of properties. 
Cheyne. 
UNBO'UNTEOUS, adj. Not kind ; not liberal.—Such 
an unbounteous giver we should make him. Milton. 
To UNBO'W, v. a. To unbend.—Looking back would 
unbow his resolution. Fuller. 
UNBO'WED, adj. Not bent. 
He knits his brow, and shews an angry eye, 
And passelh by with stiff unbowed knee, 
Disdaining duty that to us belongs. Shakspeare. 
To UNBO'WEL, v. a. To exenterate; to eviscerate.— 
In this chapter I’ll unbowel the state of the question. Hake- 
will. 
To UNBRACE, v. a. To loose ; to relax. 
Somewhat of mournful sure my ears does wound; 
Drums unbraced, with soldiers’ broken cries. Drydeii. 
To make the clothes loose. 
Is it physical. 
To walk unbraced, and suck up the humours 
Of the dank morning ? Shakspeare. 
To UNBRE'AST, v. a. To lay open; to uncover. 
Those silken shows so dim thy dazzled sight! 
Could’st thou unmask their pomp, unbreast their heart. 
How would’st thou laugh at this rich beggerie, 
And learn to hate such happy miserie ! P. Fletcher, 
UNBRE'ATHED, adj. Not exercised. 
They now have toil’d their unbreath'd memories. 
With this same plea against our nuptials. Shakspeare. 
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised 
and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, 
but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to 
be run for, not without dust and heat. Milton. 
UNBRE'ATHING, adj. Unanimated. 
They spake not a word ; 
But like dumb statues, or unbreathing stones, 
Star’d each on other, and look’d deadly pale. Shakspeare , 
UNBRE'D, adj. Not instructed in civility; ill educated. 
—Unbred minds must be a little sent abroad. Gov. of the 
Tongue. —Not taught: with to. 
A warrior dame. 
Unbred to spinning, in the loom unskill’d. Dryden. 
UNBREE'CHED, adj. Having no breeches. 
Looking on my boy’s face, methoughts I did recoil 
Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreech'd , 
In my green velvet coat. Shakspeare. 
Loosed from the breechings.—The ship — was overladen 
with guns, some were unbreeched, and her port-holes left 
open. Pennant. 
UNBRE'WED, adj. Not mixed; pure; genuine. 
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