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Uncover'd more: so rose (he Danife strong, 
Shorn of his strength. Milton. 
To bare the head, as in the presence of a superior. 
Rather let my head dance on a bloody pole, 
Than stand uncover'd to the vulgar groom. Shakspeare. 
UNCO'UNSELLABLE, adj. Not to be advised.—It 
would have been uncounsel/able to have marched, and have 
left such an enemy at their backs. Clarendon. 
UNCOUNTABLE, adj. Innumerable.—Those un¬ 
countable, glorious bodies, were not set in the firmament for 
no other end than to adorn it. Ralegh. 
UNCO'UNTED, adj. Not numbered; not counted.— 
The blunt monster with uncounted heads. Shakspeare. 
UNCO'UNTERFEIT, adj. Genuine ; not spurious.— 
True zeal is not any one single affection of the soul, but a 
strong mixture of many holy affections, filling the heart 
with all pious intentions; all, not only uncounterfeit, but 
most fervent. Sprat. 
To UNCOUPLE, v. a. To loose dogs from their 
couples. 
Uncouple in the western valley, go; 
Dispatch, I say, and find the forester. Shakspeare. 
To set loose ; to disjoin. 
So when our mortal frame shall be disjoin’d. 
The lifeless lump uncoupled from the mind, 
From sense of grief and pain we shall be free. Dry den. 
UNCOUPLED, adj. Single; not united; not wedded. 
—Uncoupled bed, and childless eld. Milton. 
UNCO'URTEOUS, adj. Uncivil; unpolite.—In be¬ 
haviour some will say, ever sad, surely sober, and somewhat 
given to musing, but never uncourteous. Sidney. 
UNCO'URTEOUSLY, adv. Uncivilly; unpolitely.— 
Though somewhat merrily, yet uncourteously he railed up¬ 
on England, objecting extreme beggary, and mere barba¬ 
rousness unto it. Ascham. 
UNCO'URTLINESS, s. Unsuitableness of manners to 
a court; inelegance.—The quakers presented an address, 
which, notwithstanding the uncourtliness of their phrases, 
the sense was very honest. Addison. 
UNCO'URTLY, adj. Inelegant of manners; uncivil; 
coarse; rustic. 
Thou hadst 
So strange a fellow in thy companie. 
His garbe was so uncourtly, I grew sicke. Habington. 
UNCO'UTH, adj. [uncuS, Sax. We now place the 
accent on the last syllable: it was formerly always on the 
first.] Odd; strange; unusual. 
Say on; 
For I that day was absent, as befel, 
Bound on a voyage uncouth, and obscure. 
Far on excursion towards the gates of hell. Milton. 
UNCO'UTHLY, adv • [uncutilice, Sax.] Oddly; 
strangely. 
Venetians do not more uncouthly ride. 
Than did their lubber state mankind bestride. Dryden. 
UNCO'UTHNESS, s. Oddness; strangeness.—To deny 
himself in the lesser instances, that so when the greater come, 
they may not have the disadvantage of uncouthness, and 
perfect strangeness, to enhance their difficulty, must be ac¬ 
knowledged reasonable. Dec. 
To UNCREA'TE. v. a. To annihilate; to reduce to 
nothing; to deprive of existence. 
Who created thee, lamenting learn, 
When who can uncreate thee thou shalt know. Milton. 
UNCREA'TED, adj. Not yet created. 
How hast thou disturb’d 
Heaven’s blessed peace, and into nature brought 
Misery, uncreated till the crime 
Of thy rebellion ? Milton. 
[ Tncree, Fr.] Not produced by creation.—-The next pa- 
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ragraph proves, that the idea we have of God is God him 
self; it being something as he says, uncreated. Locke. 
UNCRE'DIBLE, adj. Not entitled to belief; incredible. 
—Rarities and reports that seem uncredible are not to be 
suppressed, or denied to the memorie of man. Bacon. 
UNCRE'DITABLE, adj. Not reputable; not in repute. 
—He in whom ’tis not conscience, but bashfulness, and ig¬ 
norance of vice, that abstains only from uncreditable or 
unfashionable, from branded or disused, sins. Hammond. 
UNCRE'DITABLENESS, s. Want of reputation.— 
To all other disswasives, we may add this of the uncredi- 
tableness; the best that can be said is, that they use wit 
foolishly, whereof the one part devours the other. Dec. 
UNCREDITED, adj. Not believed.—It sayeth so un- 
rrpnitpfl Wfivii pp 
UNCRO'PPED, ’ adj. Not cropped; not gathered. 
Thy abundance wants 
Partakers, and uncropp'd falls to the ground. Milton. 
UNCROSSED, adj. Uncancelled. 
Such gain the cap of him, that makes them fine. 
Yet keeps his book uncross'd. Shakspeare. 
UNCROWDED, adj. Not straitened by want of room. 
An amphitheatre,— 
That on its public shows unpeopled Rome, 
And held uncrowded nations in its womb. Addison. 
To UNCRO'WN, v. a. To deprive of a crown; to de¬ 
prive of sovereignty. 
He hath done me wrong; 
And therefore I'll uncrown him ere’t be long. Shakspeare. 
To pull off the crown. 
Greedy of spoils, the Italians strip the dead 
Of his rich armour and uncrown his head. Dryden. 
U'NCTION, s. [ onction, Fr.] The act of anointing. 
—The unction of the tabernacle, the table, the laver, the 
altar of God, with all the instruments appertaining thereunto, 
made them for ever holy. Hooker.— Unguent; ointment. 
The king himself the sacred unction made; 
As king by office, and as priest by trade. Dryden. 
The act of anointing medically. Any thing softening, or 
lenitive. 
Mother, 
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. 
That not your trespass, but my madness speaks. 
Shakspeare. 
The right of anointing in the last hours.—Their extreme 
unction, administered as the dying man’s viaticum, which 
St. James mentioned as the ceremony of his recovery, may 
be added. Hammond. —Any thing that excites piety and 
devotion; that which melts to devotion. 
UNCTUO'SITY, s. Fatness; oiliness.—-Fuliginous ex¬ 
halations contain an unctuosity in them, and arise from the 
matter of fuel. Brown. 
U'NCTUOUS, adj. [ unctiis , Lat.] Fat; clammy; 
oily. 
Dry up thy harrow’d veins, and plough-torn leas. 
Whereof ingrateful man, with lickerish draughts. 
And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind. 
That from it all consideration slips. Shakspeare. 
A wandering fire. 
Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night 
Condenses, and the cold environs round. 
Kindled through agitation to a flame. Milton. 
U'NCTUOUSNESS, s. Fatness; oiliness; clamminess; 
greasiness.—A great degree of unctuousness is not necessary 
to the production of the like effects. Boyle. 
UNCU'CKOLDED, adj. Not made a cuckold.—As it 
is a heartbreaking thing to see a handsome man loose-wived, 
so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul knave uncuckolded . 
Shakspeare. 
UNCUICIA, a lake of South America, in Quito. It runs 
into the Napo. Lat. 1. 27. S. 
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