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The unletter'd Christian, who believes in gross, 
Plods on to heaven, and ne’er is at a loss. Dri/den. 
UNLE'VELLED, adj. Not laid even.'—All unlevelled 
the gay garden lies. Tickell. 
UNLIBl'DINOUS, adj. Not lustful; pure from carnality. 
In those hearts 
Love unlibidinous reign’d ; nor jealousy 
Was understood, the injur’d lover’s hell. Milton. 
UNLI'CENSED, adj. Having no regular permission. 
Ask what boldness brought him hither 
Unlicensed. Milton. 
UNLI'CKED, adj. Shapeless; not formed: from the 
opinion that the bear licks her young to shape. 
Shape my legs of an unequal size, 
To disproportion me in every part, 
Like to a chaos, or unlick'd bear-whelp. Shakspeare. 
UNLI'GHTED, adj. Not kindled; not set on fire. 
The sacred wood, which on the altar lay, 
Untouch’d, unliglited glows. Prior. 
UNLI'GHTSOME, adj. Dark; gloomy; wanting light. 
First the sun, 
A mighty sphere, he fram’d, unlightsome first, 
Though of ethereal mould. Milton. 
UNLI'KE, adj. [unjehc, Saxon.] Dissimilar; having 
no resemblance. 
Some she disgrac’d, and some with honours crown’d; 
Unlike successes equal merits found. Pope. 
Improbable; unlikely; not likely.—Make not impossible 
that which but seems unlike. Shakspeare. 
UNLI'KELIHOOD, orUNLi'KEUNEss, s. Improbabi¬ 
lity.—There are degrees herein, from the very neighbour¬ 
hood of demonstration, quite down to improbability and 
unlikeliness, even to the confines of impossibility. Locke. 
UNLI'KELY, adj. Improbable; not such as can be rea¬ 
sonably expected.—A very unlikely envy she hath stumbled 
upon. Sidney.- —Net promising any particular event.— 
Effects are miraculous and strange, when they grow by un¬ 
likely means. Hooker. 
UNLI'KELY, adv. Improbably.—The pleasures we are 
to enjoy in that conversation, not unlikely may proceed 
from the discoveries each shall communicate to another, of 
God and nature. Pope. 
UNLI'KENESS, s. Dissimilitude; want of resemblance. 
—Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for enquiring 
into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its 
likeness or unlikeness with the original. Dryden. 
UNLl'MITABLE, adj. Admitting no bounds.—He tells 
us ’tis unlimited and unlimitable. Locke. 
UNLFMBER, adj. Unyielding.—To which temper more 
septentrional unlimber nations have not yet bent themselves. 
Wotton. 
UNLI'MITED, adj. Having no bounds; having no 
limits.—So unlimited is our impotence to recompence or 
repay God’s dilection, that it fetters our very wishes. Boyle. 
—Undefined; not bounded by proper exceptions.—With 
gross and popular capacities, nothing doth more prevail 
than unlimited generalities, because of their plainness at the 
first sight; nothing less, with men of exact judgment, be¬ 
cause such rules are not safe to be trusted over far. Hooker. 
—Unconfined; not restrained.—Ascribe not unto God such 
an unlimited exercise of mercy, as may destroy his justice. 
Rogers. 
UNLI'MITEDLY, adv. Boundlessly; without bounds. 
—Many ascribe too unlimitedly to the force of a good 
meaning, to think that it is able to bear the stress of whatso¬ 
ever commissions they shall Jay upon it. Dec. ofChr. Piety. 
UNLI'MITEDNESS, s. State of being unlimited ; large¬ 
ness. Dr. Johnson. 
UNLI'NEAL, adj. Not coming in the order of succession. 
They put a barren sceptre in my gripe. 
Thence to be wrench’d with an unlineal hand, 
No son of mine succeeding. Shakspeare. 
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To U'NLINK, o. a. To untwist; to open. 
About his neck 
A green and gilded snake had wreath’d itself; 
Who with her head, nimble in threats, approach’d 
The opening of his mouth; but suddenly 
Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself. Shakspeare. 
UNLI'QUIFIED, adj. Unmelted; undissolved.—These 
huge, unwieldy lumps remained in the melted matter, rigid 
and unliquified, floating in it like cakes of ice in a river. 
Addison. 
UNLI'QUORED, adj. Not moistened; not smeared 
with any liquid.—How have we seen churches and states 
like a dry unliquored coach, set themselves on fire, with 
their own motion! Bp. Hall. —Not filled with liquor.'— 
He that could endure with a sober pen to sit and devise laws 
for drunkards to carouse by, I doubt me whether the very 
soberness of such a one, like an unliquored Silenus, were not 
stark drunk. Milton. 
UNLI'STENING, adj. Deaf; not hearing; not regard¬ 
ing. 
Unlistening, barbarous force, to whom the sword 
Is reason, honour, law. Thomson. 
UNLI'VELINESS, s. Dulness.—Who knows not that 
the bashful muteness of a virgin may oft-times hide all the 
unliveliness, and natural sloth, which is really unfit for con¬ 
versation ? Milton. 
UNLI'VELY, adj. Not lively; dull. Ash. 
To UNLO'AD, v. a. To disburden ; to exonerate; to 
free from load. 
Like an ass, whose back with ingots bows. 
Thou bear’st thy heavy riches but a journey, 
And death unloadeth thee. Shakspeare. 
To put off any thing burdensome.—To you duke Hum¬ 
phry must unload his grief. Shakspeare. 
To UNLO'CK, v. a. [uulucan, Sax., aperirc.] To open 
what is shut with a lock.-—I have seen her unlock her closet, 
take forth paper. • Shakspeare. 
She springs a light, 
Unlocks the door, and entering out of breath, 
The dying saw, and instruments of death. Dryden. 
To open in general. 
My purse, my person, my extremest means, 
Lie all unlock'd to your occasions. Shakspeare. 
UNLO'CKED, adj. Not fastened with a lock. 
UNLO'OKED, or Unlo'oked for, adj. Unexpected; 
not foreseen.—How much unlook'd for is this expedition ! 
Shakspeare. 
To UNLO'OSE, v. a. [unlepan, Sax., solvere, to loose.] 
To loose. 
York, unloose your long-imprisoned thoughts, 
And let thy tongue be equal with thy heart. Shakspeare. 
To UNLO'OSE, v. n. To fall in pieces; to loose all 
union and connexion.—Without this virtue, the publick 
union must unloose ; the strength decay; and the pleasure 
grow faint. Collier. 
UNLO'SABLE, adj. Not to be lost.—Whatever may be 
said of the un/osable mobility of atoms, yet divers parts of 
matter may compose bodies, that need no other cement to 
unite them, than the juxta-position and resting together of 
their parts, whereby the air, and other fluids that might dis¬ 
sipate them, are excluded. Boyle. 
UNLO'VED, adj. Not loved. 
What though I be not fortunate; 
But miserable most to love unlov'd 2 Shakspeare. 
UNLO'VELINESS, s. Unamiableness; inability to 
create love.—The old man, growing only in age and affec¬ 
tion, followed his suit with all means of unhonest servants, 
large promises, and each thing else that might help to coun¬ 
tervail his own unloveliness. Sidney. 
UNLO'VELY, adj. That cannot excite love. There 
seems by this word generally more intended than barely ne¬ 
gation. See Unloveliness. 
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