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To UNKNO'W, v. a. To cease to know. 
It’s already known; 
Oh! can you keep it from yourselves, unknow it? Smith. 
UNKNOWABLE, adj. Not to be known.—Here too 
even individuals, however of themselves unknowable, be¬ 
come objects of knowledge, as far as their nature will permit. 
Harris. 
UNKNO'WING, adj. Ignorant; not knowing: with of. 
Let me speak to the yet unknowing world, 
How these things came about. Shakspeare. 
Not practised; not qualified. 
These were they, whose souls the furies steel’d. 
And curs’d, with hearts unknowing how to yield. Pope. 
UNKNOWINGLY, adv. Ignorantly; without know¬ 
ledge. 
The beauty I behold has struck me dead: 
Unknowingly she strikes, and kills by chance. Dryden. 
UNKNOWN, adj. Not known. 
’Tis not unknown to you. 
How much I have disabled my estate. Shakspeare _ 
Greater than is imagined.—The planting of hemp and flax 
would be an unknown advantage to the kingdom. Bacon. 
—Not having cohabitation. 
I am yet 
Unknown to woman ; never was forsworn. Shakspeare. 
Not having communication.—At a little inn, the man of 
the house, formerly a servant in the family, to do honour to 
his old master, had, unknown to Sir Roger, put him up in 
a sign-post. Addison. 
UNLABO'RIOUS, adj. Not laborious; not difficult to 
be done.—The licensers doubtless took this office up, looking 
on it through their obedience to the parliament, whose com¬ 
mand perhaps made all things easy and unlaborious to them. 
Milton. 
UNLA'BOURED, adj. Not produced by labour. 
Unlabour'd harvests shall the fields adorn, 
And cluster’d grapes shall blush on every thorn. Dryden. 
Not cultivated by labour. 
Not eastern monarchs on their nuptial day. 
In dazzling gold and purple shine so gay. 
As the bright natives of the unlabour'd field. 
Unvers’d in spinning, and in looms unskill’d. Blackmore. 
Spontaneous; voluntary. 
Their charms, if charms they have, the truth supplies. 
And from the theme unlabour d beauties rise. Tickell. 
To UNLA'CE, v. a. To loose any thing fastened with 
strings. 
He could not endure so cruel case, 
But thought his arms to leave, and helmet to unlace. 
Spenser. 
Unlace yourself, for that harmonious chime 1 
Tells me from you that now it is bed-time. Donne. 
To UNLA'DE, v. a. To remove from the vessel which 
carries. 
He’s a foolish seaman. 
That, when his ship is sinking, will not 
Unlade his hopes into another bottom. Denham. 
To exonerate that which carries. 
The venturous merchant, who design’d for far, 
And touches on our hospitable shore. 
Charm’d with the splendour of this northern star, 
Shall here unlade him, and depart no more. Dryden. 
To put out. Used of a vessel .—We landed at Tyre; for 
there the ship was to unlade her burden. Acts. 
UNLA'ID, adj. Not placed; not fixed; not pacified; 
not stilled ; not suppressed. 
No evil thing that walks by night, 
Blue, meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, 
Hath hurtful power o’er true virginity. Milton. 
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Not laid out as a corpse. 
Parts of me they judg’d decay’d, 
But we last out still unlaid. B. Jonson. 
UNLAME'NTED, adj. Not deplored. 
Thus unlamented pass the proud away. 
The pride of fools, and pageant of a day. Pope. 
UNLA'RDED, adj. Not intermixed or foisted in by way 
of improvement.—Speak the language of the company you 
are in ; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other. Ld. 
Chesterfield. 
To UNLA'TCH, v. a. To open by lifting up the latch. 
My worthy wife 
The door unlatch'd; and, with repeated calls, 
Invites her former lord within my walls. Dryden a 
UNLA'VISH, adj. Not prodigal; not wasteful.— Un¬ 
lavish wisdom never works in vain. Thomson. 
UNLA'VISHED, adj. Not wasted; not thrown away. 
My breast unsullied by the lust of gold, 
My time unlavish'd in pursuit of power. Shenstone. 
UNLAWFUL, adj. Contrary to law; not permitted 
by the law. 
The secret ceremonies I conceal, 
Uncouth, perhaps, unlawful to reveal. Dryden. 
UNLAWFULLY, adv. In a manner contrary to law or 
right.—He that gains all that he can lawfully this year, next 
year will be tempted to gain something unlawfully. Bp. 
Taylor. —Illegitimately; not by marriage.—I had rather my 
brother die by the law, than my son should be unlawfully 
born. Shakspeare. 
UNLAWFULNESS, s. Contrariety to law; state of 
being not permitted.—If those alleged testimonies of Scrip¬ 
ture did indeed concern the matter to such effect as was pre¬ 
tended, that which they should infer were unlawfulness. 
Hooker. —Illegitimacy. 
To UNLE'ARN, v. a. To forget, or disuse what has 
been learned.—A wicked man is not only obliged to learn to 
do well, but unlearn his former life. Rogers. 
UNLE'ARNED, adj. [ungelsepeb, Saxon.] Ignorant; 
not informed; not instructed. 
Some at the bar, with subtilty defend 
The cause of an unlearned, noble friend. Dryden. 
Not gained by study; not known.—They learned mere 
words, or such things chiefly as were better unlearned. Mil¬ 
ton .—Not suitable to a learned man.—I will prove those 
verses to be very unlearned , neither savouring of poetry, wit, 
nor invention, Shakspeare. 
UNLE'ARNEDLY, adv. Ignorantly ; grossly.—He, in 
his epistle, plainly affirmeth, they think unlearnedly, who 
are of another belief. Brown. 
UNLE'AVENED, adj. Not fermented; not mixed with 
fermenting matter.—They baked unleavened cakes of the 
dough, for it was not leavened. Exod. 
UNLE'CTURED, adj. Not taught by lecture.—A sci¬ 
ence yet un/ectur'd in our schools. Young. 
UNLE'ISUREDNESS, s. Business; want of time; want 
of leisure. Not in use .—My essay touching the Scripture 
having been written partly in England, partly in another 
kingdom, it were strange if there did not appear much un¬ 
evenness, and if it did not betray the unleisuredness of the 
wandering author. Boyle. 
UNLE'SS, conjunct, [the Sax. imperative onlep, from 
onlepan, to dismiss; formerly written oneles and oneless. 
Horne Tooke .] Except; if not; supposing that not. 
Unless I look on Sylvia in the day, 
There is no day for me to look upon. Shakspeare . 
UNLE'SSONED, adj. Not taught. 
The full sum of me 
Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool’d, unpractis’d; 
Happy in this, she is not yet so old 
But she may learn. Shakspeare. 
UNLETTERED, adj. Unlearned; untaught. 
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