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Friends all but now; even now 
In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom 
Divesting them for bed; and then but now, 
As if some planet had unwitted men. 
Swords out, and tilting one at other’s breasts. Shakspeare. 
UNWITHDRA'WING, adj. Continually liberal. 
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth. 
With such a full and unwithdrawing hand. 
Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks ? 
Milton. 
UNWI'THERED, adj. Not withered; not faded.— 
The roses in her cheek unwithered. Habington. 
UNWI'THERING, adj. Not liable to wither or fade. 
The spiry myrtle with unwithering leaf 
Shines there and flourishes. Cowper, 
UNWITHSTOO'D, adj. Not opposed. 
Cressy plains. 
And Agincourt, deep ting’d with blood, confess 
What the Silure’s vigour unwithstood, 
Cou’d do in rigid fight. Philips. 
UN WITNESSED, adj. Wanting testimony; wanting 
notice.—Lest their zeal to the cause should any way be un¬ 
witnessed. Hooker. 
UNWI'TTILY, adv. Without wit.—This man was 
wanton and merry, unwittily and ungracefully merry. 
Cowley. 
UNWITTINGLY, adv. [Properly unweetingly, from 
unweeting. Dr. Johnson .—Yet the Saxons had unpifcenb 
for unwitting, and unpican, to be ignorant.'] Without 
knowledge; without consciousness.—In these fatal things it 
falls out that the high-working powers make second causes 
unwittingly accessary to their determinations. Sidney. 
UNWl'TTY, adj. Not witty; wanting wit. 
He shines, ere long, a rural squire, 
Pours fourth unwitty jokes, and swears. 
And bawls, and drinks, but chiefly stares! Shenstone. 
UNWI'VED, adj. Without a wife.—A competent mul¬ 
titude of virgins might be sent over to furnish his unwived 
bachelors. Se/den. 
To UNWO'MAN, v. a. To deprive of the qualities be¬ 
coming a woman. 
She, whose wicked deeds 
Unwoman'd her. Sndys. 
UNWO'MANLY, adj. Unbecoming a woman. 
She flies with eager fury to my face. 
Offering me most unwomanly disgrace. Daniel. 
UNWO'NT, adj. [A contraction of unwonted .] Un¬ 
accustomed; unused. 
But my flow’ring youth is foe to frost. 
My ship unwont in storms to be tost. Spenser. 
UNWO'NTED, adj. Uncommon; unusual; rare; in¬ 
frequent. 
His sad, dull eyes, sunk deep in hollow pits, 
Could not endure th’ unwonted sun to view. Spenser. 
Unaccustomed; unused.—Sea calves unwonted to fresh 
waters fly. May. 
UNWO'NTEDNESS, s. Uncommonness; what is not 
usual.—The chief thing that moved their passion and pre¬ 
judice was but unwontedness and tradition. Bp. Taylor. 
UNWOO'ED, adj. Not wooed; not courted.—They 
live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade. Shakspeare. 
UN WORKING, adj. Living without labour.—Lazy 
and unworking shopkeepers in this being worse than games¬ 
ters, do not only keep so much of the money of a country 
in their hands, but make the public pay them for it. Locke. 
UNWORMED, adj. Not wormed. 
She is mad with love. 
As mad as ever unworm'd dog was. Bcaum. and FI. 
UNWORN, part. adj. Not worn; not impaired.—So 
that six thousand years together, hath this great machine 
stood, always one and the same, unimpaired in its beauty, 
unworn in its parts, unwearied and undisturbed in its mo¬ 
tions. Barrow. 
UNWORSHIPPED, adj. Not adored. 
He resolv’d to leave 
Unworshipp'd, unobey’d the throne supreme. Milton. 
UNWORTHILY, adv. [unpupblice, Sax.] Not ac¬ 
cording to desert; either above or below merit. 
I vow’d, base knight. 
To tear the garter from thy craven leg. 
Which I have done, because unworthily 
Thou wast installed. Shakspeare. 
UNWORTHINESS, s. Want of worth; want of merit. 
Every night he comes with songs compos’d 
To her unworthiness : it nothing steads us 
To chide him from our eaves, for he persists. Shakspeare. 
Have a true and humble sense of your own unworthiness 
which will not suffer you to rise to a confidence unwarrant¬ 
ably pretended to by some. Wake. 
UNWORTHY, adj. [unpeopcS, Sax.] Not deserving: 
whether good or bad.—Every particular accident, not un¬ 
worthy the remembrance, for brevity I wittingly pass over. 
Knowles. —Wanting merit.—Are these unworthy men 
chosen to offices? Whitgift. —Mean; worthless; con¬ 
temptible.—Not suitable; not adequate.—I laid at her feet 
a work, which was unworthy her, but which I hope she will 
forgive. Dry den. —Unbecoming; vile. 
The brutal action rous’d his manly mind: 
Mov’d with unworthy usage of the maid, 
He, though unarm’d, resolv’d to give her aid. Dryden. 
UNWOUND, part. pass, and pret. of unwind. Un¬ 
twisted.—Thatchers tie with withs, but old pitch’d ropes 
unwound are more lasting, Mortimer. 
UNWO'UNDED, adj. [unpunbeb, Sax.] Not wounded. 
We may offend 
Our yet unwounded enemies. Milton. 
Not hurt. 
Oh! blest with temper: 
She who can love a sister’s charms, or hear 
Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear. Pope. 
To UNWRA'P, v. a. To open what is folded. 
To UNWRE'ATH, v. a. To untwine.—The beards of 
wild oats, and of divers other wild plants, continually 
wreath and unwreath themselves, according to the tempe¬ 
rature of the ambient air. Boyle. 
UNWRI'TING, adj. Not assuming the character of an 
author.—The peace of the honest unwriting subject was 
daily molested. Arbuthnot. 
UNWRITTEN, adj. [unppiten, Sax.] Not written; 
not conveyed by writing; oral; traditional.—A rule of right 
unwritten, but delivered by tradition from one to another. 
Spenser. —Not containing writing. 
UNWRO'UGHT, adj. Not laboured; not manufactured. 
Or prove at least to all of wiser thought. 
Their hearts were fertile land, although unWrought. 
Fairfax. 
UNWRU'NG, adj. Not pinched.—We that have free 
souls, it touches us not; let the galled jade winch, our wi¬ 
thers are unwrung. Shakspeare. 
UNXIA [from ungo, unxi, to smear or anoint], in Botany, 
a genus of the class syngenesia, order polygamia superflua, 
natural order of composite discoideae, corymbiferse (Juss.J 
—Generic Character. Calyx common roundish, five-leaved ; 
leaflets ovate. Corolla compound, radiate; ray indistinct. 
Corollets hermaphrodite five in the disk; females as many 
in the ray. Proper to the hermaphrodites funnel-form, five- 
cleft; to the females ovate, small. Stamina in the her¬ 
maphrodites. Filaments five. Anther cylindric, tubular. 
Pistil to each. Germ ovate. Style simple. Stigma bifid. 
Pericarp none. Calyx unchanged. Seeds to all ovate, hard, 
naked. Recepticle naked.— Essential Character. Calyx 
five- 
