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Most when driv’n by winds, the flaming storm 
Of the long files destroys the beauteous form ; 
Nor will She wither’d stock be green again; 
But the wild olive shoots, and shades th’ ungrateful plain. 
Dryden. 
Unpleasing ; unacceptable.—It cannot be ungrateful, or 
without some pleasure to posterity, to see the most exact 
relation of an action so full of danger. Clarendon. —What 
is in itself harsh and ungrateful, must make harsh and un¬ 
grateful impressions upon us. Alter bury. 
UNGRATEFULLY, adv. With ingratitude.—We of- 
ten receive the benefit of our prayers, when yet we ungrate¬ 
fully charge heaven with denying our petitions. Wake .— 
Unacceptably ; unpleasingly. 
UNGRATEFULNESS, s. Ingratitude; ill return for 
good.—Can I, without the detestable stain of ungrateful¬ 
ness, abstain from loving him, who, far exceeding the beau¬ 
tifulness of his shape with the beautifulness of his mind, is 
content so to abuse himself as to become Dametas’s servant 
for my sake. Sidney.- —Unacceptableness ; unpleasing qua¬ 
lity. 
UN GRATIFIED, adj. Not gratified ; not compen¬ 
sated. 
I should turn thee away ungratified 
For all thy former kindness. Beaum. and FI. 
UNGRA'VELY, adv. Without seriousness. 
His present portance 
Gibingly, and ungravely, he did fashion. Shakspeare. 
UNGROUNDED, adj. Having no foundation.—Igno¬ 
rance, with an indifferency for truth, is nearer to it than 
opinion with ungrounded inclination, which is the great 
source of error. Locke. 
UNGRU'DGINGLY, adv. Without ill will; willingly; 
heartily; cheerfully. 
If, when all his art and time is spent, 
He say ’twill ne’er be found, yet be content; 
Receive from him the doom ungrudgingly, 
Because he is the mouth of destiny. Donne. 
UNGSTEIN, a village of the Bavarian circle of the Rhine, 
in the district of Spire, with 800 inhabitants. 
UNGUA'RDED, adj. Undefended. 
Proud art thou met ? Thy hope was to have reach’d 
The throne of God unguarded, and his side 
Abandon’d. Milton. 
Careless; negligent; not attentive to danger.—All the 
evils that proceed from an untied tongue, and an unguarded, 
unlimited will, we put upon the accounts of drunkenness. 
Bp. Taylor. 
UNGUA'RDEDLY, adv. For want of guard.—If you 
find that you have a hastiness in your temper, which un¬ 
guardedly breaks out into indiscreet sallies, watch. Ld. 
Chesterfield. 
UNGUENT, s. [unguentum , Latin.] Ointment.— 
With unguents smooth, the lucid marble shone. Pope. 
UNGUE'SSED, adj. Not attained by conjecture.—He 
me sent, for cause to me unguess'd. Spenser. 
UNGUI'DED, adj. Not directed; not regulated. 
Nature, void of choice, 
Does by unguided motion things produce. 
Regardless of their order. Blackmore. 
UNGU1GIA, a river of Quito, in the province of Mainas, 
which enters the Putumayo. 
UNGUI'LTY, adj. [unjylcig, Saxon.] Innocent; not 
guilty; not stained with guilt. 
Soft pity in thy breast revive to-day, 
By this unguilty blood, goddess divine ! Fans haw. 
UNGUI-YACU, a river of Peru, in the province of Luya 
and Chilians, which runs west and enters the Capuapana. 
"UNHA'BITABLE, adj. [inhabitable, Fr.; inhabitabilis, 
Lat.] Not capable to support inhabitants; uninhabitable. 
—The night and day was always a natural day of twenty- 
four hours, in all places remote from the unhabitable poles 
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of the world, and winter and summer always measured a 
year. Holder. 
UNHACA, a small island in the Indian sea, at the entrance 
of Lorenzo Marques. Lat. 26. 5. N. 
UNHA'CKED, adj. Not cut; not hewn ; not notched 
with cuts. 
Part with unhack'd edges, and bear back 
Our targe undinted. Shakspeare. 
To UNHA'LLOW, v. a. To deprive of holiness; to 
profane; to desecrate.-—-The vanity unhallows the virtue. 
L'Estrange. 
UNHA'LLOWED, adj. [unhaljob, Saxon.] Unholy; 
profane. 
I had not thought to have unlock’d my lips 
In this unhallow'd air. Milton. 
To UNHA'ND, v. a. To loose from the hand.—Still am 
I call’d. Unhand me, gentlemen. Shakspeare. 
UNHA'NDLED, adj. Not handled; not touched. 
Cardinal Campeius 
Hath left the cause o’ the king unhandled. Shakspeare. 
UNHANDSOME, adj. Ungraceful 5 not beautiful. I 
was glad I had done so good a deed for a gentlewomau not 
unhandsome, whom before I had in like sort helped. Sid¬ 
ney. —Illiberal; disingenuous. 
UNHANDSOMELY, adv. Inelegantly; ungracefully. 
—The ruined churches are so unhandsomely patched and 
thatched, that men do even shun the places for the uncomeli¬ 
ness thereof. Spenser. —-Disingenuously; illiberally. 
He raves. Sir ; and to cover my disdain. 
Unhandsomely would his denial feign. Dryden. 
UNHANDSOMENESS, s. Want of beauty.—The 
sweetness of her countenance did give such a grace to what 
she did, that it did make handsome tiie unhandsotneness of 
it; and make the eye force the mind to believe, that there 
was a praise in that unskilfulness. Sidney. —Want of ele¬ 
gance.—Be not troublesome to thyself, or to others, by un- 
handsomeness or uncleanness. Bp. Taylor. —Illiberalness; 
disingenuity. 
UNHANDY, adj. Awkward; not dexterous. It is 
somewhere used by Swift. 
To UNHANG, v. a. To divest of bangings. 
UNHANGED, adj. Not put to death by the gallows.— 
There live not three good men 1 unhang'd in England. 
Shakspeare. 
UNHA'P, s. Misluck; ill fortune.—She visited that 
place, where first she was so happy as to see the cause of her 
unliap. Sidney. 
UNHA'PPIED. Made unhappy. 
You have misled a prince, 
A happy gentleman in blood and lineament, 
By you unhappied, and disfigur’d clean. Shakspeare. 
UNHA'PPILY, adv. Miserably; unfortunately; wretch¬ 
edly ; calamitously.-—He was unhappily too much used as a 
check upon the lord Coventry. Clarendon. —Mischievously. 
Though I be barr’d the liberty of talking, 
Yet I can think unhappily. Beaum. and FI. 
UNHA'PPINESS, s. Misery; infelicity. 
If ever he have child, abortive be it. 
Prodigious, and untimely brought to light, 
And that be heir to his unhappiness. Shakspeare, 
Misfortune; ill luck.—St. Austin hath laid down a rule 
to this purpose, though he had the unhappiness not to 
follow it always himself. Burnet.- —-Mischievous prank.— 
She hath often dream’d of unhappiness , and waked herself 
with laughing. Shakspeare. 
UNHA'PPY, adjC Wretched; miserable; unfortunate; 
calamitous; distressed. Of persons or things.—Desire of 
wandering this unhappy morn. Milton. —Unlucky; mis¬ 
chievous; irregular. Obsolete. —-A shrewd knave, and an 
unhappy! Shakspeare. 
To UNHA'RBOUR, v. a. To drive from shelter 
UNHA'RBOURED, 
