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UNCLE'ANLY, adj. Foul; filthy; nasty. 
Civet is of a baser birth than tar; 
The very uncleanly flux of a cat. Sha/cspeare. 
Indecent; unchaste.—'Tis pity that these haimonious 
writers have ever indulged any thing uncleanly or impure 
to defile their paper. 
UNCLE'ANNESS, 5. [unckennejre, Sax.] Lewdness; 
incontinence.—In St. Giles’s I understood that most of the 
vilest and most miserable houses of uncleanness were. 
Graunt. —Want of cleanliness : nastiness.—Be not curious 
nor careless in your habit; be not troublesome to thyself, or 
to others, by unhandsomeness, or unclcanness. Bp. Taylor. 
—Sin; wickedness.—I will save you from all your unclean¬ 
nesses. Ez. —Want of ritual purity. 
UNCLE'ANSED, adj. Not cleansed.—Pond earth is a 
good compost, if the pond have been long uncleansed, so 
the water be not too hungry. Bacon. 
To UNCLE'NCH, v. a. To open the closed hand. 
The hero so his enteprize recalls; 
His fist unclenches, and the weapon falls. Garth. 
To UNCLE'W, v. a. To undo. 
If I should pay you for’t as ’tis extoll’d. 
It would unclew me quite. Shahspeare. 
UNCLI'PPED, adj. Whole; not cut.—As soon as there 
began a distinction between clipped and unclipped money, 
bullion arose. Locke. 
To UNCLO'THE, v. a. To strip ; to make naked. The 
boughs and branches are never unclothed and left naked. 
Ralegh .—Poor orphans’ minds are left as uncloath'd and 
naked altogether, as their bodies. Atterbury. 
To UN CLO'G, v. a. To disencumber; to exonerate. 
Could I meet ’em 
But once a day, it would unclog my heart 
Of what lies heavy to’t. Shahspeare. 
To set at liberty. 
Then air, because unclogg'd in empty space, 
Flies after fire, and claims the second place. Dry den. 
To UNCLOTSTER, v. a. To set at large. 
Why did I not, uncloister'd from the womb. 
Take my next lodging in a tomb ? Norris. 
To UNCLO'SE, v. a. To open. 
Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, 
That well-known name awakens all my woes. Pope. 
UNCLO'SED, adj. Not separated by inclosures.—The 
king’s army would, through those unclosed parts, have done 
them little harm. Clarendon. 
To UNCLO'UD, v. a. To unveil; to clear from ob¬ 
scurity. 
Call up 
Thy senses, and uncloud thy covered spirits. 
Beaum. and FI. 
UNCLOUDED, adj. Free from clouds; clear from ob¬ 
scurity ; not darkened. 
The father unfolding bright 
Tow’rd the right hand his glory on the Son 
Blaz’d forth unclouded Deity. Milton. 
UNCLO'UDEDNESS, s. Openness; freedom from 
gloom.—The love I would persuade, makes nothing more 
conducive to it, than the greatest unclbudedness of the eye, 
and the perfectest illustration of the object; which is such, 
that the clearest reason is the most advantageous light it can 
desire to be seen by. Boyle. 
UNCLO'UDY, adj. Free from a cloud. 
Now night in silent state begins to rise, 
And twinkling orbs bestow the uncloudy skies ; 
Her borrow’d lustre growing Cynthia lends. Gay. 
To UNCLUTCH, v. a. To open.—If the terrors of the 
Lord could not melt his bowels, unclutch his griping hand, 
or disseize him of his prey ; yet sure it must discourage him 
from grasping of heaven too. Dec. of Chr. Piety. 
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To UNCO'IF, v. a. To pull the cap off.—Yonder are two 
apple-women scolding, and just ready to uncoif one ano¬ 
ther. Arbuthnot and Pope. 
UNCO'IFED, adj. Not wearing a coif. 
Thou, her majesty’s renown’d 
Though uncoif'd counsel. Young. 
To UNCOIL, v. a. To open from being coiled or 
wrapped one part upon another.—-The spiral air-vessels are 
like threads of cobweb, a little uncoiled. Derham. 
UNCO'INED, adj. Not coined.—While thou liv’st, Kate, 
take a fellow of plain, uncoined constancy. Shahspeare .— 
UNCOLLECTED, adj. Not collected ; not recollected. 
Asham’d, confus’d, I started from my bed, 
And to my soul yet uncollected said; 
Into thyself, fond Solomon! return; 
Reflect again; and thou again shalt mourn. Prior. 
Not collected or brought together. 
As when of old (so sung the Hebrew bard) 
Light uncollected through the chaos urg’d 
Its infant way. Thomson. 
UNCO'LOURED, adj. Not stained with any colour, or 
dye. 
Whether to deck with clouds the uncolour'd sky, 
Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers; 
Rising or falling, still advance his praise. Milton. 
UNCO'MBED, adj. Not parted or adjusted by the comb. 
—Thy locks uncomb'd, like a rough wood appear. Dryden. 
UNCO'MEATABLE, adj. Inaccessible; unattainable. 
A low, corrupt word. —He has a perfect art in being unin¬ 
telligible in discourse, and uncomeatable in business. Tatler. 
UNCO'MELINESS, s. Want of grace; want of beauty. 
—He praised women’s modesty, and gave orderly, well- 
behaved reproof to all uncomeliness. Shahspeare. 
UNCO'MELY, adj. Not comely; wanting grace.— Un¬ 
comely courage, unbeseeming skill. Thomson. 
UNCO'MFORTABLE, adj. Affording no comfort; 
gloomy; dismal; miserable. 
The sun ne’er views th’ uncomfortable seats. 
When radiant he advances or retreats. Pope. 
Receiving no comfort; melancholy. 
UNCO’MFORTABLENESS, s. Want of cheerfulness.— 
The want of just dispositions to the holy sacrament, may oc¬ 
casion this uncomfortableness. Bp. Taylor. 
UNCO'MFORTABLY, ado. Without cheerfulness; with¬ 
out comfort.—Upon the floor uncomfortably lying. Dray¬ 
ton. 
UNCOMMANDED, adj. Not commanded.—It is easy 
to see what judgment is to be passed upon all those affected, 
uncommanded, absurd austerities of the Romish profession. 
South. 
UNCOMME'NDABLE, adj. Illaudable ; unworthy of 
commendation.—The uncommendable licentiousness of his 
[Martial’s] poetry. Feltham. 
UNCOMME'NDED, adj. Not commended. 
Hadst thou sprung 
In deserts, where no men abide, 
Thou must have uncommended dy’d. Waller. 
UNCOMMITTED, adj. Not committed.—He hath no 
injury to provoke the uncommitted sin. Hammond. 
UNCO'MMON, adj. Not frequent; rare; not often 
found or known.—Some of them are uncommon, but such 
as the reader must assent to, when he sees them explained. 
Addison. 
UNCO'MMONLY, adv. Not frequently; to an uncom¬ 
mon degree. 
UNCO'MMONNESS, s. Infrequency; rareness; rarity. 
—Our admiration of the antiquities about Naples and Rome, 
does not so much arise out of their greatness as uncommon- 
ness- Addison. 
UNCOMMU'NICATED, adj. Not communicated.—There 
is no such mutual infusion as really causeth the same natural 
operations or properties to be made common unto both sub- 
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