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unolservedly, in the dusk of the evening, or in a disguise. 
Patrick 
UNOBSE'RVING, ad). Inattentive; not heedful.—His 
similitudes are not placed, as our unobserving critics tell us, 
in the heat of any action; but commonly in its declining. 
Dryden. 
UNOBSTRUCTED, adj. Not hindered; not stopped. 
Unobstructed matter flies away. 
Ranges the void and knows not where to stay. Blachnore. 
UNOBSTRU'CTIVE, adj. Not raising any obstacle. 
Why should he halt at either station ? Why 
Not forward run in unobstructive sky? Blachnore. 
UNOBTA'INED, adj. Net gained; not acquired.—As 
the will doth now work upon that object by desire, which 
is motion towards the end, as yet unobtained; so likewise 
upon the same hereafter received, it shall work also by love. 
Hooker. 
UNOBTRU'SIVE, adj. Not obtrusive; not forward; 
modest; humble. 
Serene, of soft address; who mildly make 
An unobtrusive offer of their hearts, 
Abhorring violence. Young. 
UNO'BVIOUS, adj. Not readily occurring.—Of all the 
metals, not any so constantly discloseth its unobvious colour, 
as copper. Boyle. 
UNOCCUPIED, adj. Unpossessed..—If we shall discover 
further to the north pole, we shall find all that tract not to be 
vain, useless, or unoccupied. Ray. 
UNOFFE'NDED, adj. Not offended. 
This general calm 
Is sure the smile of unoffended heaven. Johnson. 
UNOFFENDING, adj. Harmless; innocent. 
Thy unoffending life I could not save; 
Nor weeping could I follow to thy grave. Dryden. 
Sinless; pure from fault.—If those holy and unoffending 
spirits, the angels, veil their faces before the throne of His 
Majesty; with what awe should we, sinful dust and ashes, 
approach that infinite power we have so grievously offended. 
Rogers. 
UNOFFE'NSIVE, adj. Giving no offence.—His un¬ 
offensive and cautious return to those ill laid demands. Fell. 
UNO'FFERED, adj. Not proposed to acceptance.— 
For the sad business of Ireland, he could not express a 
greater sense, there being nothing left on his part unoffered 
or undone. Clarendon. 
UNO'FTEN, adv. Rarely.—The man of gallantry not 
unoftsn has been found to think after the same manner. 
Harris. 
To UNO'IL, v. a. To free from oil. 
A tight maid, ere he for wine can ask, 
Guesses his meaning, and unoils the flask. Dryden. 
UNO'ILED, adj. Not smeared with oil. 
His wounded ear complaints eternal fill. 
As unoil'd hinges, querulously shrill. Young. 
UNONA [So named from the union of the anthers upon 
the germ], in Botany, a genus of the class polyandria, order 
polygynia, natural order of coadunatae, anonae (Juss .)— 
Generic Character. Calyx : perianth three-leaved, very 
small, acute, pressed close. Corolla: petals six, lanceolate, 
sessile, gibbous at the base on the outside, at the same time 
excavated within into the shape of a pitcher. Stamina: 
filaments none. Anthers very numerous, oblong, collected 
into a ball within the pitcher of the corolla. Pistil: germs 
many, sessile. Styles about ten, bristle-shaped, approximat¬ 
ing, rather longer than the anthers. Stigma. Pericarp; 
berries many, pedicelled, ovate, gibbous, jointed like a neck¬ 
lace. Seeds two or three, ovate, very smooth, one above the 
other..— Essential Character. Calyx three-leaved; petals 
six; berries two or three-seeded, jointed like a necklace. 
1. Unona discreta.—Leaves lanceolate silky beneath. 
This is a tree with wand-like narrow flexile branches. 
Flower of Annona, but the fruit is different purple sapid 
aromatic, which distinguishes the genus as in Theobroma 
and Abroma. Branches pubescent.-—Native of Surinam. 
2. Unona tomentosa.— Leaves lanceolate tomentose. 
This is a shrub five feet in height, with an upright stem, 
and weak reclining branches. Flowers yellow-green, ter¬ 
minating, solitary, hanging down by a very long peduncle. 
Berries red-green, subsessile, adhering to a hemispherical 
receptacle.—-Native of Cochinchina. 
3. Unona discolor.—Leaves ovate-oblong smooth on both 
sides. This is a tree with round purplish smooth branches, 
scarcely villose at the end.—Native of the East Indies. 
4. Unona concolor.—Leaves oblong acuminate smooth 
on both sides concolor; peduncles two-flowered.—Native of 
Guiana. 
UNO'PENED, adj. Not opened; not unclosed.—In 
Germany I have known many a letter returned unopened , 
because one title in twenty has been omitted in the direction! 
Ld. Chesterjield. 
UNO'PENING, adj. Not opening. 
Benighted wanderers, the forest o’er, 
Curse the sav’d candle, and unopening door. Pope. 
UNO'PERATIVE, adj. Producing no effects.—The 
wishing of a thing is not properly the willing of it; but an 
imperfect velleity, and imports no more than an idle, un¬ 
operative complacency in the end, with a direct abhorrence 
of the means. South. 
UNOPPO'SED, adj. Not encountered by any hostility 
or obstruction. 
Proud, art thou met ? thy hope was to have reach'd 
The height of thy aspiring unoppos'd , 
The throne of God unguarded. Milton. 
UNO'RDERLY, adj. Disordered; irregular.—Since 
some ceremonies must be used, every man would have his 
own fashion; whereof what other would be the issue, but 
infinite distraction, and unorderly confusion in the church. 
Sanderson. 
UNO'RDINARY, adj. Uncommon; unusual. Not used. 
—-I do not know how they can be excused from murder, 
who kill monstrous births, because of an unordinary shape, 
without knowing whether they have a rational soul or no. 
Locke. 
UNORGANIZED, adj. Having no parts instrumental 
to the motion or nourishment of the rest.—It is impossible 
for any organ to regulate itself: much less may we refer this 
regulation to the animal spirits, an unorganized fluid. 
Grew. 
UNORIGINAL, or Unori'ginated, adj. Having no 
birth; ungenerated. 
I toil’d out my uncouth passage, forc’d to ride 
The untractable abyss, plung’d in the womb 
Of unoriginal night, and chaos wild. Milton. 
UNORNAME'NTAL, adj. Plain; without ornament.— 
I cannot forbear taking notice of one other mark of integrity 
which appears in all the compositions of the sacred writers, 
and particularly the evangelists; and that is, the simple, un¬ 
affected, unornamental, and unostentatious manner in 
which they deliver truths so important and sublime, and facts 
so magnificent and wonderful. West. 
UNORNAMENTED, adj. Not adorned; not dressed 
with ornaments.—I have bestowed so many garlands upon 
your shrine, which till my time used to stand unornamented. 
Coventry. 
UNOSTENTATIOUS, adj. Not boastful; modest. See 
an example of the word under unornamental. 
UNORTHODOX, adj. Not holding pure doctrine.-—A 
fat benefice became a crime against its incumbent; and he 
was sure to be unorthodox , that was worth the plundering. 
Dec, of Chr. Piety. 
UNOWED, adj. Having no owner. 
England now is left 
To tug and scramble, and to part by th’ teeth 
The unowed interest of proud, swelling state. Shakspeare. 
UNOWNED 
