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Invisible; undisco verable.—The weeds of heresy being 
grown into ripeness, do, even in the very cutting down, 
scatter oftentimes those seeds which for a while lie unseen 
and buried in the earth; but afterward freshly spring up 
again, no less pernicious than at the first. Hooker. —Un¬ 
skilled ; unexperienced.—He was not unseen in the affec¬ 
tions of the court, but had not reputation enough to reform 
it. Clarendon. 
UNSEl'ZED, adj. Not seized ; not taken possession of. 
Our fortune rolls as from a smooth descent, 
And from the first impression takes the bent; 
But, if unseiz'd she glides away like wind, 
And leaves repenting folly far behind. Dry den. 
UNSE'LDOM, adj. [impelban, Sax.] Not seldom. 
UNSE'LFISH, adj. Not addicted to private interest.— 
The most interested cannot purpose any thing so much to 
their own advantage, notwithstanding which the inclination 
is nevertheless unselfish. Spectator. 
UNSE'NSED, adj. Wanting distinct meaning; without 
a certain signification.—The Romanists look on the letter of 
Holy Scripture but as so many dead and unsensed charac¬ 
ters, of variable and uncertain signification. Duller. 
UNSE'NSIBLE, adj. Not sensible; now written insen¬ 
sible .■—Your and has lain long bedrid and unsensible. 
Beaum. and FI. 
UNSE'NT, adj. Not sent. 
Unsent for. Not called by letter or messenger.—If a 
physician should go from house to house unsent for, and 
enquire what woman hath a cancer, or what man a fistula, 
he would be as unwelcome as the disease itself. Bp. Taylor. 
UNSE'PARABLE, adj. Not to be parted; not to be 
divided. 
Oh world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn, 
Who twine as ’twere in love 
Unseparable, shall, within this hour, 
Break out to bitterest enmity. Shakspeare. 
UNSE'PARATED, adj. Not parted. 
There seek the Theban bard; 
To whom Persephone, entire and whole, 
Gave to retain th’ unseparated soul. Pope. 
UNSE'PULCHRED, adj. Having no grave; unburied. 
But why use I a word 
Of any act but what concerns my friend ? dead, undeplor’d, 
Unsepulcher'd. Chapman. 
UNSERVICEABLE, adj. Useless; bringing no ad¬ 
vantage or convenience. 
The beast, impatient of his smarting wound. 
Thought with his wings to fly above the ground. 
But his late wounded wing unserviceable found. Spenser. 
UNSE'RVICEABLENESS, s. Unfitness for any thing; 
uselessness.—The rawness and unserviceablcness of our 
trained bands in the beginning of the late wars. Sanderson. 
UNSE'RVICEABLY, adv. Without use; without ad¬ 
vantage.—It does not enlarge the dimensions of the globe, 
or lie idly and unserviceably there, but part of it is intro¬ 
duced into the plants which grow thereon, and the rest 
either remounts again, with the ascending vapour, or is 
wash’d down into rivers. Woodward. 
UNSE'T, adj. Not set; not placed..—They urge that 
God left nothing in his word undescribed, nothing unset 
down; and therefore charged them strictly to keep them¬ 
selves unto that without any alteration. Hooker. 
To UNSETTLE, v. a. To make uncertain.—Such a 
doctrine unsettles the titles to kingdoms and estates; for if 
the actions from which such settlements spring were illegal, 
all that is built upon them must be so too; but the last is 
absurd, therefore the first must be so likewise. Arbuthnot. 
—To move from a place.—As big as he was, did there need 
any great matter to unsettle him ? L'Estrange. —To over¬ 
throw.—The course of nature, being settled by divine 
power, can be unsettled by no less. Fleetwood. 
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To UNSE'TTLE, v. n. To become unsettled.—His wits 
begin to unsettle. Shakspeare. 
UNSETTLED, adj. Not fixed in resolution; not deter¬ 
mined ; not steady. 
A solemn air, and the best comforler 
To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains. Shakspeare. 
Unequable; not regular; changeable.—March and Sep¬ 
tember, the two equinoxes, are the most windy and tempes¬ 
tuous, the most unsettled and unequable seasons in most 
countries. Bentley. —Not established. 
My cruel fate, 
And doubts attending an unsettled state. 
Forc’d me to guard my coast. Dry den. 
Not fixed in a place or abode.—David supposed that it 
could not stand with the duty which he owed unto God, to 
set himself in an house of cedar trees, and to behold the ark 
of the Lord’s covenant unsettled. Hooker. 
UNSE'TTLEDNESS, s. Irresolution; undetermined 
state of mind.—Whence comes that main imperfection of 
our lives, unsettledness, and flitting from one thing to an¬ 
other, frequently relapsing into sins once forsaken ? Whence 
are we so easily carried with every wind of fear, hope, com¬ 
modity ? All is, because we are not yet resolved. Hales. 
—Uncertainty; fluctuation.—The unsettledness of my con¬ 
dition has hitherto put a stop to my thoughts concerning it. 
Dryden. —Want of fixity.—When the sun shines upon a 
river, though its waves roll this way and that by the wind, 
yet for all their unsettledness, the sun strikes them with a 
direct and certain beam. South. 
UNSE'TTLEMENT, s. Unsettledness; irresolution.— 
For want of faith enduing us with such knowledge, all 
human wisdom was so blind and lame, so various, so un¬ 
certain, nothing but confusion, unsettlement, and dissatis¬ 
faction arising from mere ratiocination. Barrow. 
UNSE'VERED, adj. Not parted; not divided. 
Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends, 
I’ th’ war do grow together. Shakspeare. 
To UNSE'X, v. n. To make otherwise than the sex 
commonly is. 
All you spirits 
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here. 
And fill me, from the crown to th’ toe, top full 
Of direst cruelty. Shakspeare. 
To UNSHA'CKLE, v. a. To loose from bonds.—A 
laudable freedom of thought unshackles their minds from 
the narrow prejudices of education, and opens their eyes to 
a more extensive view of the public good. Addison. 
UNSHA'DED, adj. Not overspread with darkness. 
Fair as unshaded light, or as the day 
In its first birth, when all the year was May. Davenant. 
UNSHA'DOWED, adj. Not clouded; not darkened.— 
He alone sees all things with an unshadowed, comprehensive 
vision, who eminently is all. Glanvi/le. 
UNSHAKABLE, adj. Not subject to concussion. 
Your isle stands. 
As Neptune’s paik, ribbed and paled in 
With rocks unshakable, and roaring waters. Shakspeare. 
The unshakable bottom of divine authority. South .— 
Not to be moved in resolution.—Our Saviour expressed his 
unshakable faith in God, under so fierce a trial, so dreadful 
a temptation. Barrow. 
UNSHA'KED, adj. Not shaken. Not in use. 
I know but one, 
That unassailable holds on his rank, 
Unshak'd of motion. Shakspeare. 
UNSHAKEN, adj. Not agitated ; not moved. 
Purpose is 
Of violent birth, but poor validity; 
Which now, like fruits unripe, sticks on the tree, 
But fall unshaken, when they mellow be. Shakspeare. 
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