By the command of Domitian when cast into a canl Brows dron of burning oil, he came out unsinged. Three men passed through a fiery furnace, untouched, unsinged. Stephen's Serment, UNSINK'ING, adj. Not sinking. Auxur feels the cool refreshing breeze Blown off the sea, and ail the dewy strand Lies covered with a smooth, unsinking sand. Addison. UNSIN'NING, adj. Impeccable. A perfect unsinning obedience, free from particular acts of transgresssion. Roger UNSKAN'NED, adj. Not measured; not com puted. UNSKILLED, adj. UNSKIL'FUL, UNSKIL FULLY, adv. This tiger-footed rage when it shall find The harm of unskanned swiftness, will, too late, Tie leaden pounds to 's heels. Shakspeare. Wanting skill; want ing knowledge: with in before a noun, and UNSKIL FULNESS, n. s. to before a verb: unskilful is wanting art or knowledge: the adverb and noun substantive corresponding. The sweetness of her countenance did give such a grace to what she did, that it did make handsome the unhandsomeness, and make the eye force the mind to believe that there was a praise in that unskilfullness. Sidney. This overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve. Shakspeare. You speak unskilfully; or, if your knowledge bo more, it is much darkened in your malice. Unskilled in hellebore, if thou shouldst try To mix it, and mistake the quantity, The rules of physick would against thee cry. Dryden. UNSLAIN', adj. Not killed. If there were any who felt a pity of so great a fall, and had yet any sparks of unslain duty left in them towards me, yet durst they not shew it. Sidney. UNSLAK'ED, adj. Not quenched. Her desires new roused, And yet unslaked, will kindle in her fancy, And make her eager to renew the feast. Dryden. Milton. Those blossoms, and those drooping gums That lie bestrown, unsightly, and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease. UNSOCIABLE, adj. Į Lat. insociabilis. Not UNSOCIABLY, adv. kind; not suitable to society the adverb corresponding. By how much the more we are accompanied with plenty, by so much the more greedily is our end desired, whom, when time hath made unsociable to others, we become a burden to ourselves. Raleigh. These are pleased with nothing that is not unsociably sour, ill-natured, and troublesome. L'Estrange. UNSOIL'ED, adj. Not polluted; not tainted; not stained. The humours are transparent, to let in the light, unsoiled and unsophisticated by any inward tincture. Ray. UNSOLD', adj. Not exchanged for money. Mopsus the sage, who future things foretold; And t' other seer, yet by his wife unsold. Dryden. Adieu, my children! better thus expire Unstalled, unsold; thus glorious mount in fire. Pope. UNSOLDIERLIKE, adj. Unbecoming a sol dier. Ends in an age imperfect, and unsound. Secure these golden early joys, Bacon. That youth unsoured with sorrow bears. Dryden. UNSOWN', adj. Not propagated by scattering seed. Milton. Id. She gathers tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand. UNSPEAK', v. a. To retract; recant: unUNSPEAK'ABLE, adj.speakable is not to be UNSPEAKABLY, adv. Stold or uttered: the adverb corresponding. A thing, which uttered with true devotion and zeal of heart, affordeth to God himself that glory, that aid to the weakest sort of men, to the most perfect that solid comfort, which is unspeakable. Hooker. I put myself to thy direction, and Unspeak mine own detraction; here abjure The taints and blames I laid upon myself. Shakspeare. When nature is in her dissolution, and presents us with nothing but bleak and barren prospects, there is something unspeakably chearful in a spot of ground which is covered with trees, that smile amidst all the rigours of winter. Spectator. UNSPECIFIED, adj. Not particularly men tioned. Were it not requisite that it should be concealed, it had not passed unspecified. Browne. UNSPECULATIVE, adj. Not theoretical. Some unspeculative men may not have the skill to examine their assertions. Government of the Tongue. UNSPED', adj. Not despatched; not per formed. Garth Venutus withdraws Unsped the service of the common cause. UNSPENT', adj. Not wasted; not diminished; not weakened; not exhausted. The sound, inclosed within the sides of the bell, cometh forth at the holes unspent and more strong. Bacon. UNSPHERE', v. a. To remove from its orb The spirit of Plato, to unfold Milton. UNSPIED', adj. Not searched; not explored. With narrow search I must walk round This garden, and no corner leave unspied. Milton. 2 I UNSPILT', adj. Not shed. UNSTAUNCH'ED, adj. Not stopped; not With the issuing blood Stifle the villain, whose unstaunched thirst That blood which thou and thy great grandsire shed, stayed. laged. All the way that they fled, for very despight, in their return they utterly wasted whatsoever they had before left unspoiled. Spenser's State of Ireland. Bathurst, yet unspoiled by wealth. Pope. UNSPOTTED, adj. Not marked with stain or spot. Pure religion and undefiled is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James i. 27. A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. Shaksp. Vindicate the honour of religion, by a pure and unspotted obedience to its precepts. Rogers. UNSQUAR'ED, adj. Not formed; irregular. When he speaks, 'Tis like a chime a-mending, with terms unsquared, Which, from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropt, Would seem hyperboles. Shakspeare. UNST, the most northern of the Shetland Isles, constituting a parish. It is of an irregular oblong figure, twelve miles long, and four broad. The surface is hilly. The chief hill is Vallafield, which extends the whole length of the island along its west coast. Crossfield crosses it in the middle. The soil is fertile, though the culture is bad. Fine rock crystals are found in it, also jaspers and topazes. Large caves are in it 300 feet under ground. UNSTABLE, adj. Lat. instabilis. Not fixed; not fast. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. As full of peril and advent'rous spirit, Shakspeare. Inconstant; irresolute the adverb and noun subOstantive corresponding. And her unsteady hand hath often placed Men in high power, but seldom holds them fast. yielding. James i. 8. A popular state, not founded on the general interests of the people, is of all others the most uncertain, unstable, and subject to the most easy changes. Temple. UNSTAID', adj. Į Not cool; not prudent; UNSTAID'NESS, n. s. not settled into discretion: the noun substantive corresponding. Wo to that land, Which gasps beneath a child's unstaid command! Sandys. 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. UNSTAIN'ED, adj. Not stained; not dyed; not dishonoured. Pure and unstained religion ought to be the highest To live an unstained wife to my sweet love. Shaksp. Roscommon. Such neighbour nearness to our sacred blood The eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears Such white fumes have been afforded, by unstopping a liquor diaphanous and red. UNSTRAINED, adj. Easy; not forced. By an easy and unstrained derivation, it implies the breath of God. Hakewill on Providence. UNSTRAITENED, 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. UNSTRENGTHENED, adj. Not supported; Unsucked of lamb or kid, that tend their play. Milt. UNSUF FERABLE, adj. Not supportable; not to be endured. The irksome deformities, whereby, through endless and senseless effusions of indigested prayers, they oftentimes disgrace, in most unsufferable manner, the worthiest part of Christian duty towards God. Hooker. That glorious form, that light unsufferable. Milton. UNSUFFICIENCE, n. s. Į Fr. insuffisance. UNSUFFICIENT, adj. Inability to answer the end proposed: the adjective corresponding. The error and unsufficience of the arguments doth make it on the contrary side against them. Hooker. Malebranche having shewed the difficulties of the other ways, and how unsufficient they are to give a satisfactory account of the ideas we have, erects this, of seeing all things in God, upon their ruin, as the true. Locke. Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed In unsuperfluous, even proportion, And she no whit encumbered with her store. Milton. UNSUPPLANTED, adj. Not forced or thrown from under that which supports it. Season of rest; but well bedewed repair Gladsome they quaff, yet not encroach on night, sponding. Them she upstays Gently with myrtle band; mindless the while UNSURE, udj. Not fixed; not certain. To hard assays unfit, unsure at need, What safety is it, for avoiding seeming absurdities, and unsurmountable rubs, in one opinion, to take refuge in the contrary, which is built on something altogether Locke. as inexplicable? UNSUSCEPTIBLE, adj. Incapable; not liable to admit. She, a goddess died in grain, Was unsusceptible of stain. UNSUSPECT, adj. UNSUSPECT'ED, UNSUSPECT'ING. Swift. Not considered as likely to do or mean ill: unsus pecting is not suspicious. Here is the head of that ignoble traitor, The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings. Shakspeare. Author unsuspect out of Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile. Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap fashion; richly suited, but unsuitable, just like the brooch and the toothpick, which we wear not now. Hard recompence, unsuitable return For so much good. Shakspeare. Milton. Milton. Pope. When Albion sends her eager sons to war, Pleased, in the general's sight, the host lie down Sudden before some unsuspecting town. UNSUSPICIOUS, adj. Having no suspicion. UNTOUCH'ED, adj. Not touched; not reached or affected. They, like persons wholly untouched with his agonies, and umoved with his passionate entreaties, sleep away all concern for him or themselves. Sidney. Achilles, though dipt in Styx, yet, having his heel untouched by that water, was slain in that part. Browne's Vulgar Errours. Three men passed through a fiery furnace untouched, unsinged. Stephen's Sermons. UNTOW'ARD, adj. Froward; perverse; UNTOWARDLY, adj. & adv. vexatious; not easily guided, or taught: the adjective and adverb correspond. Have to my window; and, if she be froward, Then hast thou taught Hortensio to be untoward. The ladies prove adverse, And more untoward to be won, Than by Caligula the moon. Shakspeare. Hudibras. crossly to the He that provides for this short life, but takes no care for eternity, acts as untowardly and as reason of things as can be. Tillotson. Id. He explained them very untowardly. They learn from unbred or debauched servants, untowardly tricks and vices. Locke on Education. Men leave estates to their children in land, as not so liable to casualties as money in untrading and unskilful hands. Locke. UNTRAINED', adj. Not educated; not disciplined. My wit untrained in any kind of art. Shakspeare. The king's forces charged lively, and they again as stoutly received the charge; but being an untrained multitude, without any soldier or guide, they were soon put to flight. Hayward. UNTRANSFER'RABLE, adj. Incapable of being given from one to another. In parliament there is a rare co-ordination of power, opaque. Though held against the light, they appeared of a transparent yellow; yet, looked on with one's back turned to the light, they exhibited an untransparen blue. Boyle on Colours. UNTRAVELLED, adj. Never trodden by pas sengers; having never travelled. We find no open track or constant manuduction in this labyrinth, but are ofttimes fain to wander in Ame Browne. rica and untravelled parts. An untravelled Englishman cannot relish all the bearin them are often such as are peculiar to that country. ties of Italian pictures; because the postures expressed UNTREAD', v. a. UNTROD', adj. UNTROD'DEN. Addison. To tread back; to go back in the same steps: nc Spassed or trodden. We will untread the steps of damned flight, And, like a bated and retired flood, Leaving our rankness and irregular course, Stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlooked. Shakspeare. UNTREATABLE, adj. Not treatable; not practicable. Men are of so untreatable a temper, that nothing can be obtained of them. Decay of Put UNTRIED, adj. Not yet attempted or expe rienced. That she no ways nor means may leave untried, Thus to her sister she herself applied. Never more Denham Milten. Mean I to try, what rash untried I sought, triumph. What towns, what garrisons might you, With hazard of this blood subdue; Which now y' are bent to throw away In vain, untriumphable fray? UNTROL'LED, adj. Not bowled; not rolled along. Hudibras. Hard fate! untrolled is now the charming dye; The playhouse and the park unvisited must lie. Dryd. UNTROUBLED, adj. Not disturbed by care, sorrow, or guilt. Spenser Would they think with how small allowance Untroubled nature doth herself suffice, Such superfluities they would despise. The equal distribution of the spirits in the liquor with the tangible parts, ever representeth bodies clear and untroubled. Hooker. UNTRUE', not faithful: the adverb cofFalse; contrary to reality; UNTRULY, adv. responds. By what construction shall any man make those comparisons true, holding that distinction untrue? Hooker. On these mountains it is generally received that the Raleigh, ark rested, but untruly. UNTRUST'INESS, n. s. Unfaithfulness. |