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Their odours lost, their colours past, 
She chang’d her look. Prior. 
To take off the dressing from the wound. 
His hands the Duke’s worst-order’d wounds undress 
And gently bind. Davenant. 
U'NDRESS, s. A loose or negligent dress. 
Reform her into ease, 
And put her in undress to make her please. Drydcn. 
UNDRE'SSED, adj. Not regulated.—Thy vineyard lies 
half prun’d, and half undress'd. Dry den. —Not prepared 
for use.—The common country people wore perones, shoes 
of undressed leather. Arbuthnot. 
UNDRl'ED, adj. Not dried. 
Their titles in the field were try’d : 
Witness the fresh laments, and iuneral tears undry'd. 
Dry den. 
UNDRI'VEN, adj. Not impelled either way. 
As wintry winds contending in the sky. 
With equal force of lungs their titles try ; 
The doubtful rack of heaven 
Stands without motion, and the tide undriven. Drydcn. 
UNDROO'PING, adj. Not sinking; not despairing. 
English merit her’s, where meet combin’d 
Whate’er high fancy, sound judicious thought, 
An ample generous heart, undrooping soul; 
And firm tenacious valour can bestow. Thomson. 
UNDRO'SSY, adj. Free from recrement. 
Of heaven’s undrossy gold, the gods’ array 
Refulgent, flash’d intolerable day. Pope. 
UNDRO'WNED, adj. Not drowned.—I have no hope 
that he’s undrown'd. Shakspeare. 
UNDU'BITABLE, adj. Not admitting doubt; unques¬ 
tionable.—Let that principle, that all is matter, and that there 
is nothing else, be received for certain and undubitab/e, and 
it will be easy to be seen what consequences it will lead us 
into. Locke. 
UNDU'E, adj. Not right; not legal.—That proceeding 
being at that time taxed for rigorous and undue , in matter 
and manner, makes it very probable there was some greater 
matter against her. Bacon. —Not agreeable to duty.—He 
will not prostitute his power to mean and undue ends, nor 
stoop to little and low arts of courting the people. Atter- 
bury. 
U'NDULARY, adj. [undulo, Latin.] Playing like 
waves; playing with intermissions.—'The blasts and undu- 
lary breaths thereof maintain no certainly in their course. 
Brown. 
To U'NDIJLATE, v. a. \_undulo, Latin.] To drive 
backward and forward; to make to play as waves.—Breath 
vocalized, i. e. vibrated and undulated, may in a different 
manner affect the lips, or tongue, or palate, and impress a 
swift, tremulous motion, which breath alone passing smooth 
doth not. Holder. 
To U'NDULATE, v. n. To play as waves in curls. 
Through undulating air the sounds are sent, 
And spread o’er all the fluid element. Pope. 
U'NDULATED, adj. Having the appearance of waves. 
—The roots of this tree do furnish the inlayer and cabinet 
makers with pieces rarely undulated. Evelyn. 
UNDULA'TION, s. Waving motion.—All tunable 
sounds are made by a regular vibration of the sonorous 
body, and undulation of the air, proportionable to the 
acuteness and gravity of the tone. Holder. —Appearance 
of waves. Unused. Mason. —The root of the wilder sort 
[is] incomparable for its crisped undulations. Evelyn. 
U'NDULATORY, adj. Moving in the manner of waves. 
—A constant undulatory motion is perceived by looking 
through telescopes. Arbuthnot. 
To UNDU'LL, v. a. To remove dulness from ; to dear; 
to purify. Unused. 
UNDU'LY, ado. Not properly ; not according to duty. 
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—Men unduly exercise their zeal against persons; not only 
against evil persons, but against those that are the most vene¬ 
rable. Sprat. 
UNDU'RABLE, adj. Not lasting. Obsolete. 
To UNDU'ST, v. a. To free from dust; to cleanse. 
This is a more proper word than to dust, in the present 
meaning. Unused. —When we frequently dress up the altar 
of our hearts, and undust it from all these little foulnesses, 
by degrees we come to be aided. W. Mountague. 
UNDU'TEOUS, adj. Not performing duty ; irreverent; 
disobedient. 
In Latium safe he lay. 
From his unduteous son, and his usurping sway. Drydcn. 
UNDU'TIFUL, adj. Not obedient; not reverent.— 
England thinks it no good policy to have that realm planted 
with English, lest they should grow so undutiful as the Irish, 
and become more dangerous. Spenser. 
UNDU'TIFULLY, ado. Not according to duty. 
The fish had long in Caesar’s ponds been fed, 
And from its lord undutifully fled. Dry den. 
UNDU'TIFULNESS, s. Want of respect; irreverence; 
disobedience.—Forbidding undut fulness to superiors, se¬ 
dition and rebellion against magistracy. Til/otson. 
UNDY, a parish of England, in Monmouthshire; 7 miles 
east-south-east of Caerleon. 
UNDY'ING, adj. Not destroyed ; not perishing. 
Driven down 
To chains of darkness, and the undying worm. Milton. 
UNE, a settlement of South America, in New Granada; 8 
leagues south-west of Santa Fe. 
UNEA'RNED, adj. Not obtained by labour or merit. 
Our woik is brought to little, though begun 
Early, and the hour of supper comes unearn'd. Milton. 
UNEA'RTHED, adj. Driven from the den in the 
ground. 
The robber of the fold 
Is from his craggy, winding haunts unearth'd. Thomson. 
UNEA'RTHLY, adj. Not terrestrial. 
The sacrifice 
IIo .v ceremonious, solemn, and unearthly 
It was i’ the offering ! Shakspeare. 
UNE'ASILY, ado. Not without pain.—He lives un¬ 
easily under the burden. L'Estrange. —They make man¬ 
kind their enemy by their unjust actions, and consequently 
live more uneasily in the world than other men. Til/otson. 
UNE'ASINESS, 5. Trouble; perplexity; state of dis¬ 
quiet. 
Not a subject 
Sits in heart grief and uneasiness, 
Under the sweet shade of your government. Shakspeare. 
UNEA'SY, adj. Painful; giving disturbance —On a 
tottering pinnacle the standing is uneasy, and the fall deadly. 
Dec. of Chr. Piety. —Disturbed; not at ease.— Uneasy lies 
the head that wears a crown. Shakspeare. —Constraining; 
cramping. 
Some servile imitators 
Prescribe at first such strict, uneasy rules, 
As they must ever slavishly observe. Roscommon. 
Constrained; not disengaged; stiff.—In conversation, a 
solicitous watchfulness about one’s behaviour, instead of be¬ 
ing mended, will be constrained, uneasy, and ungraceful. 
Locke. —Peevish ; difficult to please.—A sour, untractable 
nature, makes him uneasy to those who approach him. 
Addison. Difficult. Out of use. 
This swift business 
I must uneasy make; lest too light winning 
Make the prize light. Shakspeare. 
UNE'ATEN, adj. Not devoured.—Though they had 
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