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UNKIND', adj. UNKINDLY, adj. & adv. benevolent: unkindly, UNKIND NESs, n. s. as an adjective, is unnatural; unfavorable; malignant: as an adverb, it, as well as unkindness, agrees with unkind. They, with their filthiness,

Polluted this same gentle soil long time,
That their own mother loathed their beastliness,
And 'gan abhor her brood's unkindly crime,

All were they born of her own native slime. Spenser.
In nature there's no blemish but the mind;
None can be called deformed, but the unkind. Shaksp.
Take no unkindness of his hasty words.

The herd unkindly wise,

Id.

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Denham.

He's a foolish seaman, That, when his ship is sinking, will not Unlade his hopes into another bottom. UNLAID', adj. Not placed; not fixed; nor stilled or quieted.

No evil thing that walks by night, Blue, meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghos. Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

Milton.

UNLAMENT'ED, adj. Not deplored. After six years spent in outward opulency, and inward murmur that it was not greater, he died unlamented by any. Clarendon.

UNLATCH', v. a. To open by lifting up the

latch.

My worthy wife

The door unlatched; and, with repeated calls,

Invites her former lord within walls.

my

UNLAWFUL, adj. UNLAWFULLY, adv. UNLAWFULNESS, n. s.

Dryden. Contrary to, or not permitted by law; the derivatives correspond

ing.

It is an unlawful thing for a Jew to come unto one of another nation. Acts, x. 28. I had rather my brother die by the law, than my son snould be unlawfully born. Shakspeare.

He that gains all that he can lawfully this year, next year will be tempted to gain something unlawfully. Taylor

The original reason of the unlawfulness of lying is, that it carries with it an act of injustice, and a violation of the rights of him to whom we were obliged to signify our minds. South.

UNLEARN', v. a. To forget; disuse what UNLEARN'ED, adj. has been learned: unUNLEARNED'LY, adv. learned is ignorant; uninstructed; not befitting a learned man: the adverb corresponding.

I will prove those verses to be very unlearned, neither savouring of poetry, wit, or invention. Shakspeare. The government of the tongue is a piece of morality which sober nature dictates, which yet our greatest scholars have unlearnt. Decay of Piety. 2 H

He, in his epistle, plainly affirmeth, they think unlearnedly who are of another belief.

Browne's Vulgar Errours.

Some at the bar with subtilty defend The cause of an unlearned, noble friend, Dryden. A wicked man is not only obliged to learn to do well, but unlearn his former life. Rogers. UNLEAV'ENED, adj. Not fermented; not mixed with fermenting matter.

They baked unleavened cakes of the dough, for it was not leavened. Exodus, ii. 39. UNLEI'SUREDNESS, n. s. Business; want of time; want of leisure. Not in use.

My essay touching the scripture having been written partly in England, partly in another kingdom, it were strange if there did not appear much unevenness, and if it did not betray the unleisuredness of the wandering Boyle. UNLESS', conjunct. Except; if not ; supposing that not.

author.

Let us not say, we keep the commandments of the one, when we break the commandments of the other; for, unless we observe both, we obey neither. Hooker. What hiddeu strength,

Unless the strength of heaven, if you mean that?

No poet ever sweetly sung,

Unless he were, like Phoebus, young;

Nor ever nymph inspired to rhyme,

Unless, like Venus, in her prime.

UNLES'SONED, adj. Not taught.

The full sum of me

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Milton.

Swift.

Shakspeare.

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Effects are miraculous and strange, when they grow by unlikely means. Hooker. Make not impossible that which but seems unlike. Shakspeare. Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for enquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original. Dryden.

The work was carried on, amidst all the unlikelihoods and discouraging circumstances imaginable; the builders holding the sword in one hand, to defend the trowel working with the other. South. UNLIM'ITABLE, adj. Admitting no bounds; UNLIMITED, having no bounds or UNLIMITEDLY, adv. Slimits: the adverb corresponding.

meaning, to think that it is able to bear the stress of Many ascribe too unlimitedly to the force of a good whatsoever commissions they shall lay upon it.

Decay of Piety.

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These huge, unwieldly lumps, remained in the melted matter rigid and unliquified, floating in it like cakes of ice in a river. Addison on Italy. UNLOAD', v. a. To disburden; exonerate; free from load.

Like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloadeth thee.

Shakspeare.

Nor can my tongue unload my heart's great burthen.

Some to unload the fertile branches run.

ld. Pope.

UNLOCK', v. a. To open what is shut with a lock, or other fastening; to open generally. I have seen her unlock her closet, take forth paper. Shakspeare.

I yielded, and unlocked her all my heart, Who, with a grain of manhood well resolved, Might easily have shook off all her snares. Milton. UNLOOK’ED, adj. Į Unexpected; not foreUNLOOK'ED for. S seen.

Whatsoever is new is unlooked for; and ever it mends some, and pares others.

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.

Bacon.

Pope.

UNLOOSE', v. a. & v. n. To loose; to fall in pieces. 'A word perhaps barbarous and ungrammatical, the particle prefixed implying negation; so that to unloose is, properly, to bind.'-Johnson. The latchet of his shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. Murk i. 7.

York, unloose your long imprisoned thoughts, And let thy tongue be equal with thy heart. UNLOVED, adj.

UNLOVE'LINESS, n.s.

UNLOV'ING, adj.

S

Shak.

Not loved: unamia

bleness: unkind.

As love does not always reflect itself, Zelmane, though reason there was to love Palladius, yet could

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UNLUTE', v. a. To separate vessels closed with chemical cement.

Our antimony, thus handled, affordeth us an ounce of sulphur, of so sulphureous a smell, that, upon the unluting the vessels, it infected the room with a scarce supportable stink.

Boyle.

UNMADE', adj. Not yet formed; not created; deprived of being or qualities.

Thou wast begot in Demogorgon's hall, And sawest the secrets of the world unmade. Spenser. The first earth was perfectly unmade again, taken all to pieces, and framed a-new. Woodward.

UNMAIM'ED, adj. Not deprived of any essential part.

An interpreter should give his author entire and unmaimed; the diction and the versification only are his proper province. Pope's Preface to the Iliad.

UNMAKE', v. a. To deprive of former UNMAKE'ABLE, udj. qualities before possessed. To deprive of form or being. See UNMADE. The adjective corresponds.

They've made themselves, and their fitness now Does unmake you. Shakspeare. Macbeth.

If the principles of bodies are unalterable, they are also unmakable by any but a divine power. Grew.

UNMAN', v. a. To deprive of the constituent qualities of a human being; to break the spirit; deject.

Shakspeare.

What, quite unmanned in folly?
Her clamours pierce the Trojan's ears,
Unman their courage, and augment their fears.

Dryden.
UNMAN'AGEABLE, adj. Not manageable;
UNMANAGED.
not easily govern-

ed; not broken in, or tutored. Like colts, or unmanaged horses, we start at dead

bones and lifeless blocks.

Taylor.

They'll judge every thing by models of their own, and thus are rendered unmanageable by any authority but that of absolute dominion. Glanville.

Savage princes flash out sometimes into an irregular greatness of thought, and betray, in their actions, an unguided force, and unmanaged virtue.

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Whose womb unmeasurable, and infinite breast Felton. Teems and feeds all.

Shakspeare. Timon.

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UNMOOR', v. a. To loose from land, by taking up the anchors.

Soon as the British ships unmoor, And jolly long-boat rows to shore.

Prier.

We with the rising morn our ships unmoored, And brought our captives and our stores aboard. Pope. UNMORALIZED, adj. Untutored by morality. This is censured as the mark of a dissolute and unNorris. moralized temper.

UNMORTGAGED, adj. Not mortgaged. Is there one God unsworn to my destruction? The least unmortgaged hope? for, if there be, Methinks I cannot fall. Dryden's All for Love. UNMORTIFIED, adj. Not subdued by sorrow and severities.

If our conscience reproach us with unmortified sin, our hope is the hope of an hypocrite.

UNMOV'ED, adj.

UNMOVABLE,

UNMOV'ING.

Rogers.

Not put out of one place into another: not having motion: not to be moved.

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Dryden.

These are such extremes as afford no middle for industry to exist, hope being equally out-dated by the desperateness or unnecessariness of an undertaking. Decay of Piety.

'Tis highly imprudent, in the greatest of men, unnecessarily to provoke the meanest. L'Estrange.

UNNEIGHBOURLY, adj. & adv. Not kind; not suitable to the duties of a neighbour: with mutual mischief or with unkindness.

These two Christian armies might combine
The blood of malice in a vein of league,
And not to spend it so unneighbourly.

Shakspeare.

Parnassus is but a barren mountain, and its.inhabitants make it more so by their unneighbourly deportment. Garth.

UNNERVE', v. a. Į To weaken; enfeeble: UNNERVATER', adj. weak; enfeebled.

Shakspeare.

UNNOTED, adj. Not observed; not regarded ; not heeded.

Shaksp.

They may jest, Till their own scorn return to them unnoted. Unwept, unnoted, and for ever dead. Pope's Odyssey. A shameful fate now hides my hopeless head,

UNNUM'BERED, adj. Innumerable. The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks; They are all fire, and every one doth shine. Shaksp. Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and diseases, and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares and passions. Raleigh.

UNOBEY'ED, adj. Not obeyed.

Not leave

Unworshipped, unobeyed, the throne supreme. Milton. UNOBJECT'ED, adj. Not charged as a fault, or contrary argument.

What will he leave unobjected to Luther, when he makes it his crime that he defied the devil? Atterbury. UNOBNOXIOUS, adj. Not liable; not exposed to any hurt.

So unobnoxious now, she hath buried both;
For none to death sins, that to sin is loth.
In fight they stood
Unwearied, unobnoxious to be pained.

Donne.

Milton.

UNOBSE'QUIOUSNESS, n. s. Incompliance;

disobedience.

They make one man's particular failings confining laws to others; and convey them as such to their succeeders, who are bold to misname all unobsequiousness to their incogitancy, presumption.

UNOBSERVED, adj. UNOBSERVABLE, UNOBSERVANT,

UNOBSERVING.

Browne.

Not regarded; not attended to; not heeded; not minded: not to be observed; not

perceptible: inattentive: unheedful. The motion in the minute parts of any solid body, which is the principal cause of violent motion, though unobserved, passeth without sound.

Bacon.

They the Son of God, our Saviour meek, Sung victor; and from heavenly feast refreshed, Brought on his way with joy: he unobserved, Home to his mother's house private returned. Milton. confused apprehensions of a beauty, that gilds the outThe unobservant multitude may have some general, side frame of the universe.

Glanville.

A piece of glass reduced to powder, the same which, when entire, freely transmitted the beams of light, acquiring by contusion a multitude of minute surfaces, reflects, in a confused manner, little and singly unobservable images of the lucid body, that from a diaphanous it degenerates into a white body. Boyle.

His similitudes are not placed, as our unobserving criticks tell us, in the heat of any action; but com monly in its declining. Dryden.

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