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But since the sisters did so soon untwine 
So fair a thread. I’ll strive to piece the line. Waller. 
To open what is wrapped on itself.—It turns finely and 
softly three or four turns, caused by the untwining of the 
beard by the moisture. Bacon. —To separate that which 
clasps round any thing.—Divers worthy gentlemen of Eng¬ 
land, all the Syren songs of Italy could never untwine from 
the mast of God’s word. Ascham. 
To UNTWI'ST, v. a. To separate any things involved 
in each other, or wrapped up on themselves.—The interest 
of prince and people is so enfolded in a mutual embrace, 
that they cannot be untwisted without pulling a limb off. 
Bp. Tail lor. 
To UNTY', v. a. [See To Untie.] To loose. 
O time! thou must untangle this, not I: 
It is too hard a knot for me to unty. Skalcspeare. 
To UNVA'IL, v. a. To uncover; to strip of a veil. 
This word is unvail, or unveil, according to its etymology. 
See Vail, and Veil. —Troy reviv’d, her mourning face 
unvail'd. Denham. 
UNVA'LUABLE, adj. Inestimable; being above price. 
—Secure the innocence of children, by imparting to them 
the unvaluable blessing of a virtuous and pious education. 
Atterbury. 
UNVA'LUED, adj. Not prized ; neglected. 
He may not, as unvalued persons do, 
Carve for himself; for on his choice depends 
The safety and the health of the whole state. Skalcspeare. 
Inestimable; above price. 
I thought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks; 
Inestimable stones, unvalu'd jewels. Skalcspeare. 
UNVA'NQUISHABLE, adj. Not to be subdued.—An 
unvanquishable fort against the impressions and assaults of 
all adversary forces. Bp. King. 
UNVA'NQUISHED, adj. Not conquered ; not over¬ 
come.—Victory doth more often fall by the error of the un¬ 
vanquished, than by the valour of the victorious. Hay¬ 
ward. 
UNVA'RIABLE, adj. [invariable, Fr.] Not change¬ 
able; not mutable.—The two great hinges of morality stand 
fixt and unvariable as the two poles: whatever is naturally 
conducive to the common interest, is good; and whatever 
has a contrary influence, is evil. Norris. 
UNVA'RIED, adj. Not changed ; not diversified. 
They ring round the same unvaried chimes, 
With sure returns of still-expected rhymes. Pope. 
UNVATRNISHED, adj. Not overlaid with varnish.— 
Not adorned; not decorated. 
I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver. 
Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms 
I won his daughter with. Skalcspeare. 
UNVA'RYING, adj. Not liable to change.—We cannot 
keep by us any standing, unvarying measure of duration, 
which consists in a constant fleeting succession, as we can 
of certain lengths of extension, as inches marked out in per¬ 
manent parcels of matter. Loclce. 
To UNVE'IL, v. a. [See Veil, and Vail.] To un¬ 
cover ; to divest of a veil. 
To the limpid stream direct thy way, 
When the gay morn unveils her smiling ray. Pope. 
To disclose; to show. 
Now unveil'd the toilet stands display’d. 
Each silver vase in my stick order laid. Pope. 
UNVE'ILEDLY, adv. Plainly; without disguise.—Not 
knowing what use you will make of what has been unveil- 
edly communicated to you, I was unwilling that some 
things, which had cost me pains, should fall into any man’s 
hands, that scorns to purchase knowledge with pains. Boyle. 
UNVE'NERABLE, adj. Not worthy of respect. Ma¬ 
son. 
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For ever 
Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou 
Tak’st up the princess by that forced baseness 
Which he hath put upon’t. Shakspeare. 
UN VENTILATED, adj. Not fanned by the wind. 
This, animals, to succour life, demand; 
Nor should the air unventilated stand; 
The idle deep corrupted would contain 
Blue deaths. Blackmore. 
UNVE'RDANT, adj. Having no verdure; spoiled of its 
green. 
Ungraceful ’tis to see without a horn 
The lofty hart, whom branches best adorn, 
A leafless tree, or an unverdant mead. 
And as ungraceful is a hairless head. Congreve. 
UNVE'RITABLE, adj. Not true.—All these proceeded 
upon unveritable grounds. Brown. 
UNVE'RSED, adj. Unacquainted; unskilled. 
Not eastern monarchs, on their nuptial day. 
In dazzling gold and purple shine so gay. 
As the bright natives of th’ unlabour’d field, 
XJnvers'd in spinning, and in looms unskill’d. Blackmore. 
UNVE'XED, adj. Untroubled; undisturbed. 
Unvex'd with thought of wants which may betide; 
Or for to-morrow’s dinner to provide. Dryden. 
UNVI'OLATED, adj. Not injured; not broken.—He, 
with singular constancy, preserved his duty and fidelity to 
his majesty unviolated. Clarendon. 
UNVI'RTUOUS, adj. Wanting virtue.—If they can 
find in their hearts that the poor, unvirtuous, fat knight 
shall be any further afflicted, we two will be the ministers. 
Shakspeare. 
To UNVI'SARD, v. a. To unmask.—What a death it 
is to the prelates to be thus unvisarded, thus uncased. 
Milton. 
UNVI'SITED, adj. Not resorted to. 
In some wild zone 
Dwell, not unvisited of heaven’s fair light. 
Secure. Milton. 
UNVI'TIATED, adj. Not corrupted. 
Restore your ladyship’s quiet; render then 
Your niece a virgin, and unvitiated. B. Jonson. 
UNUCUMURI, a small river of the Portuguese territory, 
on the banks of the great river Amazons, which runs east, 
between the rivers Negro and Amazons, and enters a lake. 
UNU'NIFORM, adj. Wanting uniformity.—Such an 
ununiform piety is in many so exactly apportioned to Sa¬ 
tan’s interest, that he has no cause to wish the change of his 
tenure. Dec. of Chr. Piety. 
To UNVOTE, v. a. To destroy by a contrary vote; to 
annul a former vote.—This was so sacred a rule, that many 
of those that voted with the court the day before, expressed 
their indignation against it, as subverting the very constitu¬ 
tion of Parliaments, if things might thus be voted, and un¬ 
voted again from day to day. Burnet. 
UNVO'WELLED, adj. Without vowels.—I wrote, that 
Moses left unvowelled copies to the tribes, save one which 
had both accents and vowels to the priests. Skinner. 
UN VO'Y AGE ABLE, adj. Not to be passed over or 
voyaged. 
Nor this unvoyageable gulph obscure, 
Detain from following thy illustrious track. Milton. 
UNUTIGED, adj. Not incited; not pressed. 
The time was once, when thou unurg'd would’st vow. 
That never words were music to thine ear, 
Unless I spake. Shakspeare. 
UNU'SED, adj. Not put to use; unemployed. 
Sure he that made us with such large discourse, 
Looking before and after, g^ve us not 
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