The wandering ghosts

Of kings unburied on the wasted coasts.

UNBURN'ED, adj.
UNBURNT',

Bacon.

Pope. Not consumed, wasted, or injured by fire: not burning.

UNBURN'ING. Burnt wine is more hard and astringent than wine unburnt. Bacon. What we have said of the unburning fire called light, streaming from the flame of a candle, may easily be applied to all other light deprived of sensible heat.

Digby. UNBURTHEN, v. a. To rid of a load; throw off; disclose that which is metaphorically a burden to the mind.

We'll shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths; while we Unburdened crawl tow'rd death. Shakspeare Sharp Buckingham unburthens with his tongue The envious load that lies upon his heart. To loose any thing but

UNBUTTON, v. a.

toned.

Id.

Pope.

Fear most to tax an honorable fool, Whose right it is uncensured to be dull. UNCERTAIN, adj. Fr. incertain; Lat. inUNCERTAINED, certus. Doubtful; not UNCERTAINLY, adv. (certainly known; unsetUNCERTAINTY, n. s. tled: made uncertain: the adverb and noun substantive corresponding.

As the form of our public service is not voluntary, so neither are the parts thereof uncertain; but they are all set down in such order, and with such choice, as hath

in the wisdom of the church seemed best.

Hooker.

UNCHANGED, adj.

UNCHANGEABLE,

UNCHANGEABLENESS, n. s.

UNCHANGEABLY, adv.

UNCHANG'ING, adj.

Prior.

Not altered not to be changed: un

changeableness and unchangeably corresponding :

changing is also without alteration or change. But that thy face is vizor-like, unchanging,

Made impudent with use of evil deeds,

un

I would essay, proud queen, to make thee blush. Shak.
More safe I sing with mortal voice; unchanged
To hoarse, or mute.

Dismiss thy fear,

Milton.

And heaven's unchanged decrees attentive hear;
More powerful gods have torn thee from my side. Dry
All truth is unchangeably the same; that proposition,
which is true at any time, being so for ever.
South

UNCHRISTENED, adj. Not christened.

A murderer's banes in gibbet airns;

Twa span-lang, wee, unchristened bairns;
A thief, new-cutted frae a rape,
Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape.

Burns.

vigilant.

Their uncircumspect simplicity had been used, especially in matters of religion. Hayward. UNCIVIL, adj. Į Fr. incivil; Lat. incivilis. UNCIV'ILLY, adv. Unpolite; not agreeable to rules of complaisance.

Your undutiful, uncivil, and uncharitable dealing in this your book, hath detected you. Whitgift Somewhat in it he would not have done, or desired undone, when he broke forth as desperately, as before he had done uncivilly. Browne's Vulgar Errours.

My friends are so unreasonable, that they would have me be uncivil to him.

Spectator. UNCIVILIZED, adj. Not reclaimed from

barbarity.

Several, who have been polished in France, make use of the most coarse, uncivilized words in our language. Addison.

UNCLARIFIED, adj. Not purged; not puri

fied.

Bacon.

One ounce of whey unclarified; one ounce of il of vitriol, make no apparent alteration. UNCLASP', v. a. To open what is shut with clasps.

Prayer can unclasp the girdles of the north, saying to a mountain of ice, Be thou removed hence, and cast into the sea. Taylor's Worthy Communicant. UNCLASSIC, adj. Not classic. Angel of dulness, sent to scatter round Her magick charms o'er all unclassick ground. UN'ČLE, n. s. Fr. oncle. The father's or mo

ther's brother.

Pope.

A

and other derivatives correspond.

UNCHRISTIAN, adj. › Contrary to the UNCHRISTIANNESS, n. s. laws of Christianity; infidel: state or quality of being contrary to Christianity.

The unchristianness of those denials might arise from a displeasure to see me prefer my own divines before their ministers. King Charles.

It's uncharitable, unchristian, and inhuman, to pass a peremptory sentence of condemnation upon a tried friend, where there is any room left for a more favourable judgment. L'Estrange. UNCIRCUMCISED, adj. Not circumcised; UNCIRCUMCISION, n. s. S not a Jew: state of being uncircumcised.

God, that gives the law that a Jew shall be circumeised, thereby constitutes uncircumcision an obliquity; which, had he not given that law, had never been such. Hammond.

The uncircumcised smiled grimly with disdain. Cowley.

UNCLEAN'NESS,

UNCLEANS'ED, adj.

Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate and unclean affections.

Civet is of a baser birth than tar; The very uncleanly flux of a cat.

Perkins.

Shakspeare.

Pond earth is a good compost, if the pond have been long uncleansed; so the water be not too hungry. Bacon's Natural History. This profane liberty and uncleanliness the archbishop resolved to reform. Clarendon.

UNCLENCH', v. a.
To open the closed hand.
The hero so his enterprize recalls;

Garth.

His fist unclenches, and the weapon falls.
UNCLEW', v. a. From clew. To undo.
If I should pay you for 't as 'tis extolled,
It would unclew me quite.

Shakspeare. Timon.

UNCLIPPED, adj. Whole; not cut. As soon as there began a distinction between clipped and unclipped money, bullion arose.

Locke.

UNCLOTHE', v. a. To strip; make naked. The boughs and branches are never uncloathed and left naked. Raleigh's History of the World. Poor orphans' minds are left as unclouthed and naked altogether as their bodies. Atterbury. UNCLOG', v. u. To disencumber; exonerate.

Then air, because unclog'd in empty space, Flies after fire, and claims the second place. Dryden. UNCLOISTER, v.a. To set at large. Why did I not, uncloistered from the womb, Take my next lodging in a tomb?

UNCLOSE', v. a. To open.

Norris,

The king's army would, through those unclosed parts, have done them little harm. Clarendon.

Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes. Pope. UNCLOUD'ED. adj. Both adjectives mean UNCLOUD'EDNESS, n. s. free from clouds; clear UNCLOUD'Y, adj. from obscurity; not darkened and the noun substantive corresponds.

True virtues, with unclouded light,

All great, all royal, shine divinely bright. Roscommon.
Now night in silent state begins to rise,
And twinkling orbs bestrow the uncloudy skies,
Her borrowed lustre growing Cynthia lends.
UNCLUTCH', v. a. To open.

Gay.

If the terrors of the Lord could not melt his bowels, unclutch his griping hand, or disseize him of his prey; yet sure it must discourage him from grasping of heaven too. Decay of Piety. To pull the cap off.

To UNCOIF', v. a. Yonder are two apple-women scolding, and just ready to uncoif one another. Arbuthnot to Pope. UNCOIL', v. a. wrapped. The spiral air-vessels are like threads of cobweb, a little uncoiled. Derham's Physico-Theology. UNCOIN ED, adj. Not coined; not impressed or prejudiced in mind.

To open from being coiled or

While thou liv'st, Kate, take a fellow of plain, uncoined constancy. Shakspeare. Henry V.

An ounce of coined standard silver must be of equal

value to an ounce of uncoined standard silver. Locke. UNCOLLECTED, adj. Not collected; not

recollected.

and endured the want of sundry, both pleasures and honours, before enjoyed. Hooker.

Christmas is in the most dead, uncomfortable time of the year, when the poor people would suffer very much, if they had not good cheer to support them. Addison. UNCOMMAND'ED, adj. Not commanded. It is easy to see what judgment is to be passed upon all those affected, uncommanded, absurd austerities of the Romish profession. South.

UNCOMMON, adj. Į Not frequent; rare: UNCOM MONNESS, n. s. § rareness.

Some of them are uncommon, but such as the reader must assent to, when he sees them explained.

Addison.

The amorous needle, once joined to the loadstone, would never, uncompelled, forsake the inchanting mineral. Boyle. UNCOMPLAISANT', adj. Not civil; not

obliging.

A natural roughness makes a man uncomplaisant to others, so that he has no deference for their inclinations. Locke. Not perfect; not

UNCOMPLEAT', adj.

finished.

Various incidents do not make different fables, but are only the uncompleat and unfinished parts of the same fable. Pope. Simple; not

UNCOMPOUND'ED, adj.

mixed.

The substance of the faith was comprised in that uncompounded style, but was afterwards prudently enlarged, for the repelling heretical invaders.

Hammond's Fundamentals.

Hardness may be reckoned the property of all uncompounded matter. Newton's Opticks. UNCOMPREHEN'SIVE, adj. Unable to comprehend. In Shakspeare it seems to signify incomprehensible.

The providence, that's in a watchful state, Knows almost every grain of Pluto's gold; Finds bottom in the incomprehensive deep. Shakspeare. UNCOMPRESSED', adj. Free from com

pression.

We might be furnished with a reply, by setting down the differing weight of our receiver, which emptied, and when full of uncompressed air. Boyle.

The unconceivableness of something they find in one, throws men violently into the contrary hypothesis, though altogether as unintelligible. Locke. UNCONCERN', n. s. UNCONCERNED, adj. UNCONCERN'EDLY, adv. UNCONCERN EDNESS, n.s. UNCONCERN'ING, adj.

Both noun substantives signify negligence; want of interest; freedom from anxiety or perturbation unconcerned, having, or feeling no interest or anxiety: the adverb corresponding unconcerning is uninteresting.

Things impossible in their nature, or unconcerning to us, cannot beget it. Decay of Piety.

You called me into all your joys, and gave me An equal share; and in this depth of misery Can I be unconcerned? Denham's Sophy. Death was denounced, that frightful sound, Which even the best can hardly bear : He took the summons, void of fear,

And unconcernedly cast his eyes around, As if to find and dare the griesly challenger. Dryden. This science of medals, which is charged with so many unconcerning parts of knowledge, and built on such mean materials, appears ridiculous to those that have not examined it.

Addison on Medals.

Not decisive; 3 inferring no plain

UNCONCLUDENT, adj. Į
UNCONCLUDING.

or certain conclusion or consequence.
Our arguments are inevident and unconcludent. Hale.
Either may be much more probably maintained than
hitherto, as against the unaccurateness and the uncon-
cludingness of the analytical experiments vulgarly re-
lied on.
Boyle.

He makes his understanding only the warehouse of other men's false and unconcluding reasonings, rather than a repository of truth for his own use. Locke. UNCONCOCTED, adj. Not digested; not

matured.

UNCONDEMNED', adj. Not condemned.

t was a familiar and uncondemned practice, amongst the Greeks and Romans, to expose, without pity, their innocent infants. Locke. Absolute; not

UNCONDITIONAL, adj.

limited by any terms.

0 pass not, Lord! an absolute decree,

Or bind thy sentence unconditional;

But in thy sentence our remorse foresee, And, in that foresight, this thy doom recal. Dryden. Our Saviour left a power in his church to absolve men from their sins; but this was not an absolute and unconditional power. Ayliffe's Parergon. UNCONFINED', adj. Free from restraint; UNCONFIN'ABLE. Sunlimited not to be limited or confined.

:

You rogue! you stand upon your honour! why, thou unconfinable baseness, it is as much as I can do to keep mine honour. Shak. Merry Wives of Windsor.

If that which men esteem their happiness, were, like the light, the same sufficient and unconfined good, whether ten thousand enjoy the benefit of it, or but one, we should see men's good will and kind endeavours would be as universal. Spectator.

UNCONFUSED, adj. Į Distinct; free from UNCONFUSEDLY, adv. confusion.

It is more distinct and unconfused than the sensitive Hale.

memory. Every one finds that he knows when any idea is in his understanding, and that, when more than one are there, he knows them, distinctly and unconfusedly, from one another. Locke.

UNCONFUTABLE, adj. Irrefragable; not to be convicted of error.

One political argument they boasted of as unconfutable, that from the marriages of ecclesiasticks would ensue poverty in many of the children, and thence a disgrace and burden to the church. Sprat.

UNCONGEAL'ED, adj. Not concreted by cold. By exposing wine, after four months digestion in horse-dung, unto the extremity of cold, the aqueous parts will freeze, but the spirit retire, and be found uncongealed in the centre.

UNCON'JUGAL, adj.

Browne.

Not consistent with matrimonial faith; not befitting a wife or husband. My name

To all posterity may stand defamed;
With malediction mentioned, and the blot
Of falsehood most unconjugal traduced.

Milton.

UNCONNECTED, adj. Not coherent; not joined by proper transitions or dependence of parts.

Those who contemplate only the fragments broken off from any science, dispersed in short unconnected discourses, can never survey an entire body of truth.

Watts.

Turning his face to the dew-dropping south. Shaksp.
UNCONSTRAIN’ED, adj. Not compelled or
UNCONSTRAIN'EDLY, adv.
UNCONSTRAINT', n. s.

restrained: the adverb correspond

ing freedom from constraint; ease. These be the miseries which our first parents brought upon all mankind, unto whom God, in his creation, gave a free and unconstrained will. Raleigh.

Such a patron has frankly, generously, and unconstrainedly relieved me. South.

Mr. Dryden writ more like a scholar; and, though the greatest master of poetry, he wanted that easiness, that air of freedom and unconstraint, which is more sensibly to be perceived than described. Felton.

UNCONSULTING, adj.

Heady; rash; improvident.

Latin inconsultus.

It was the fair Zelmane, Plexirtus's daughter, whom unconsulting affection, unfortunately born to mewards, had made borrow so much of her natural modesty, as to leave her more decent raiments. UNCONSUM'ED, adj. Not wasted; not destroyed by any wasting power.

Hope never comes,

That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge fed

With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.

Sidney.

Gaza mourns,

Milton.

And all that band them to resist His uncontroulable intent. Uncontroulably, and under general consent, many opinions are passant, which, upon due examination, admit of doubt. Browne.

UNCONVERS'ABLE, adj. Not suitable to conversation; not social.

Faith and devotion are traduced and ridiculed, as morose unconversable qualities. Rogers. UNCONVERTED, adj. Not converted: not persuaded of the truth of Christianity.

Salvation belongeth unto none, but such as call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; which nations as yet unconverted neither do, nor possibly can do, till they believe. Hooker.

The apostle reminds the Ephesians of the guilt and misery of their former unconverted estate, when aliens from the commonwealth of Israel. Rogers.

UNCONVINCED, adj. Not convinced.

Locke.

those who are to propagate religion, or philosophy, A way not to be introduced into the seminaries of amongst the ignorant and unconvinced. UNCORRECTED, adj Inaccurate; not polished to exactness.

I have written this too hastily and too loosely: it comes out from the first draught, and uncorrected.

UNCORRUPT, adj. UNCORRUPTED, UNCORRUPT'NESS, n. s.

Dryden. Honest; upright; not tainted with wickedness; not influenced by iniqui

Milton.

shew openly.

After you are up, uncover your bed, and open the curtains to air it. Harvey.