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UNST, the most northern of the Shetland isles, being si¬ 
tuated in 61. 12. N. Lat. From south to north it is about 10 
miles long, and in some places 7 miles broad, and its area 
includes about 40 square miles. The general aspect is diver¬ 
sified into hill and dale, with several small lakes; and the 
arable land is disposed in strips by the shore, more especially 
at the south end, where it is pretty broad. Altogether it 
amounts to about 1875 acres, under crops. The gardens are 
well stored with culinary vegetables and the smaller fruits, 
with a display of most flowers that Scotland can produce. 
The artichoke also is in great perfection in this island. The 
live slock consists of cattle; little horses, extremely hardy 
creatures, but none exceeding ten hands and a half in height, 
owing probably to the hard treatment they meet with, never 
being indulged with a stable, even in the coldest weather. 
The sheep are of a pretty large size compared with the rest of 
the Zetland sheep, and they have remarkably fine fleeces: 
there are also many swine, of a considerable size. Rabbits 
are also exceedingly abundant. The domestic poultry, in¬ 
cluding turkeys, are very numerous. Of game there is neither 
grouse nor partridge, but the corn rail is frequently heard; 
and there are multitudes of aquatic birds, such as snipe, 
plover, curlew, duck, swan, goose, heron; also wild pigeons. 
The birds of prey are eagles, (extremely destructive to the 
lambs), hawks, ravens, crows. Unst forms a parish of itself, 
which contains 2288 inhabitants. 
UNSTA'BLE, adj. [instabilis, Lat.] Not fixed; not fast. 
Thus air was void of light, and earth unstable. Dryden .— 
Inconstant: irresolute.—A double-minded man is unstable. 
James. 
UNSTA'ID, adj. Not cool; not prudent; not settled 
into discretion; not steady; mutable. 
To the gay gardens his unstaid desire 
Him wholly carried, to refresh his sprights Spenser. 
UNSTA'IDNESS, s. Indiscretion; volatile mind. Un¬ 
certain motion.—The oft changing of his colour, with a 
kind of shaking unstaidness over all his body, he might 
see in his countenance some great determination mixed with 
fear. Sidney. 
UNSTA'INED, adj. Not stained; not dyed; not dis¬ 
coloured ; not dishonoured; not polluted.—Pure and un¬ 
stained religion ought to be the highest of all cares apper¬ 
taining to public regimen. Hooker. 
To UMSTA'TE, i>. a. To put out of dignity. 
High-battled Caesar will 
Unstate his happiness, and be stag’d to th’ shew 
Against a sworder. Shakspeare. 
UNSTATUTABLE, adj. Contrary to statute.—That 
plea did not avail, although the lease were notoriously 
unstatutable, the rent reserved, being not a seventh part of 
the real value. Swift. 
UNSTA'UNCHEU, adj. Not stopped; not stayed. 
With the issuing blood 
Stifle the villain, whose unstaunched thirst 
York and young Rutland could not satisfy. Shakspeare. 
UNSTE'ADFAST, adj. Not fixed; not fast; not re¬ 
solute. 
I’ll read you matter, 
As full of peril and adventurous spirit. 
As to o’erwalk a current, roaring loud. 
On the unsteadfast footing of a spear. Shakspeare. 
UNSTE'ADILY, adv. Without any certainty. Incon¬ 
stantly ; not consistently.—He that uses his words loosely 
and unsteadily, will not be minded, or not understood. 
Loekc. 
UNSTE'ADINESS, s. Want of constancy; irresolu¬ 
tion ; mutability.—A prince of this character will instruct 
us by his example, to fix the unsteadiness of our politics. 
Addison. 
UNSTEADY, adj. Inconstant; irresolute. 
And her unsteady hand hath often plac’d 
Men in high pow’r, but seldom holds them fast. Denham. 
Not fixed ; not settled. 
UNSTE'ADFASTNESS, s. Want of steadfastness.—The 
unquietness and unsteadfastness of some dispositions affect¬ 
ing, every year, new forms of things. K. James. 
UNSTEE'PED, adj. Not soaked.—-Other wheat was 
sown unsteeped, but watered twice a day. Bacon. 
UNSTI'LL, adj. [unpcille, Sax.] Unquiet. 
To UNSTl'NG, v. a. To disarm of a sting.—He has 
disarmed his afflictions, unstung his miseries: and though 
he has not the proper happiness of the world, yet he has 
the greatest that is to be enjoyed in it. South. 
UNSTI'NTED, adj. ‘Not limited.—In the works of 
nature is unstinted goodness shewn us by their author. 
Skelton. 
UNSTI'RRED, adj. Not stirred; not agitated.—Such 
seeming milks suffered to stand unstirred, let fall to the 
bottom a resinous substance. Boyle. 
To UNSTI'TCH, v. a. To open by picking the stitches. 
—Cato well observes, though in the phrase of a tailor, friend¬ 
ship ought not to be unripped, but unstitched. Collier. 
UNSTON, a township of England, in Derbyshire; 4j 
miles north-by-west of Chesterfield. Population 439. 
UNSTO'OPING, adj. Not bending; not yielding. 
Such neighbour nearness to our sacred blood 
Should nothing priv’lege him, nor partialize 
Th’ unstooping firmness of my upright soul. Shakspeare. 
To UNSTO'P, v. a. To free from stop or obstruction ; 
to open.—Such white fumes have been afforded, by un¬ 
stopping a liquor diaphanous and red. Boyle. 
UNSTO'PPED, adj. Meeting no resistance. 
The flame unstopp'd, at first more fury gains, 
And vulcan rides at large with loosen’d reins. Dryden, 
UNSTO'RMED, adj. Not taken by assault. 
The doom 
Of towns unstorm'd, and battles yet to come. Addison. 
UNSTRA'INED, adj. Easy; not forced.—By an easy 
and unstrained derivation, it implies the breath of God. 
Hake-will. 
UNSTRA'ITENED, adj. Not contracted.—The eternal 
wisdom, from which we derive our beings, enriched us with 
all these ennoblements that were suitable to the measures of 
an unstraitened goodness, and the capacity of such a 
creature. Glanville. 
UNSTRE'NGTHENED, adj. Not supported; not as¬ 
sisted.—The church of God is neither of capacity so weak, 
nor so unstrengthened with authority from above, but that 
her laws may exact obedience at the hands of her own 
children. Hooker. 
To UNSTItPNG, v. a. To relax any thing strung; te 
deprive of strings. 
My tongue’s use is to me no more, 
Than an unst ringed viol or harp. Shakspeare. 
To loose ; to untie. 
Invaded thus, for want of better bands, 
His garland they unstring, and bind his hands. Dryden. 
UNSTRU'CK, adj. Not moved; not affected. 
Over dank and dry. 
They journey toilsome, unfatigu’d with length 
Of march, unstruck with horror at the sight 
Of Alpine ridges bleak. Philips. 
UNSTRUT, a river in the west of Germany, which rises in 
the Eichsfeld, receives the Salza, the Gera, the Helbe, the 
Loss, the Kipper, the Helme, &c. and joins the Saale, about 
two miles north of Naumburg. 
UNSTUDIED, adj. Not premeditated; not laboured. 
In your conversation I cou’d observe a clearness of notion, 
express’d in ready and unstudied words. Dryden. 
UNSTU'FFED, adj. Unfilled; not crowded. 
Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye; 
And where care lodgeth, sleep will never lie: 
But where unbruised youth with unstuft brain. 
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. 
Shakspeare. 
UNSU'BJECT, 
