UNKING', v. a. To deprive of royalty. It takes the force of law: how then, my lord! If as they would unking my father now, To make you way.

UNKÏSS'EĎ, adj. Not kissed.

Southern.

Foul words are but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I Shakspeare. will depart unkist.

UNKLE, n. s. Fr. oncle. The brother of a fa

ther or mother. See UNCLE.

The English power is near, led on by Malcolm, His unkle Siward, and the good Macduff. Shakspeare. UNKNIGHTLY, adj. Unbecoming a knight. With six hours hard riding through wild places, I overgot them a little before night, near an old illfavoured castle, the place where I perceived they meant Sidney. to perform their unknightly errand.

UNKNIT', v. a. To unweave; separate; open.
Would he had continued to his country

As he began, and not unknit himself
The noble knot he made! Shakspeare. Coriolanus.
Unknit that threat'ning, unkind brow. Shakspeare.
To cease to know: un-
knowable, is not to be
known: unknowing, ig-
norant; not practised:
the adverb correspond-
ing unknown, not known in nature or degree.
Let me speak to the yet unknowing world,
How these things came about. Shakspeare. Hamlet.

UNKNOW', v. a. UNKNOWABLE, adj. UNKNOWING, UNKNOWINGLY, adv. UNKNOWN', adj.

I am yet Unknown to woman; never was forsworn. Shakspeare. Here may I always on this downy grass, Unknown, unseen, my easy minutes pass! Roscommon. VOL. XXII.

UNLATCH', v. a.

latch.

Clarendon.

To open by lifting up the

My worthy wife

The door unlatched; and, with repeated calls, Invites her former lord within my walls.

UNLAWFUL, adj.

Dryden.

UNLAWFULLY, adv.

UNLAWFULNESS, n. s.

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

ing.

It is an unlawful thing for a Jew to come unto one of Acts, x. 28.

another nation. I had rather my brother die by the law, than my son Shakspeare. should be unlawfully born.

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: un-
S
UNLEARNED'LY, adv. learned is ignorant; un-

instructed; not befitting a learned man: the adverb corresponding.

I will prove those verses to be very unlearned, neither Shakspeare. savouring of poetry, wit, or invention.

The government of the tongue is a piece of morality which sober nature dictates, which yet our greatest Decay of Piety. scholars have unlearnt.

2 H

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. UNLIMITABLE, adj. Admitting no bounds; UNLIMITED, having no bounds or UNLIMITEDLY, adv. limits: 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.

unlimited excellencies, which have no bounds, though it It is some pleasure to a finite understanding, to view cannot comprehend them.

Tillotson.

He tells us 'tis unlimited and unlimitable. Locke. UNLIN'EAL, adj. Not coming in the order of succession.

They put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.

UNLINK', v. a.

Shakspeare. Macbeth,

To untwist; open.

About his neck

A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself;
Who with her head, nimble in threats, approached
The opening of his mouth; but suddenly,
Seeing Orlando, it unlinked itself.
Shakspeare.
UNLI'QUIFIED, adj. Unmelted; undis-

solved.

Milton.

Love unlibidinous reigned; nor jealousy
Was understood, the injured lover's hell.
UNLICENSED, adj. Having no regular per-

mission.

free from load.

Milton.

Pope.

UNLOVE'LINESS, n.s. UNLOV'ING, adj.

Shak.

Not loved: unamiableness: unkind.

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. UNMAKE ABLE, adj. To deprive of form or being. See UNMADE. The adjective corresponds.

To deprive of former qualities before possessed.

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

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

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.

UNMAN'AGEABLE, adj.
UNMAN'AGED.

ed; not broken in, or tutored.

Dryden. Not manageable; not easily govern

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.

Felton.

You have a slanderous, beastly, unwashed tongue In your rude mouth, and savouring yourself, Unmannered lord. Ben Jonson's Catiline.

A sort of unmannerliness is apt to grow up with young people, if not early restrained; and that is a forwardness to interrupt others speaking. Locke on Education. UNMANUR'ED, adj. Not cultivated. The land,

In antique times, was savage wilderness;
Unpeopled, unmanured, unproved, unpraised. Spenser.
UNMARKED, adj. Not observed; not re-

garded.

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.

Prior.

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 unmoralized temper. Norris.

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. Rogers. UNMOV'ED, adj. Not put out of one place UNMOVABLE, into another: not having motion not to be moved.

UNMOV'ING.

Now unmuzzle your wisdom. Have you not set mine honour at the stake, And baited it with all the' unmuzzled thoughts Thy tyrannous heart can think?

Id.

UNNA, a large river in the north-west of European Turkey, which rises the mountains of Herzegovina, flows through Bosnia, along the border of Croatia, and falls into the Save at Uszticza. It is navigable for a considerable distance. UNNA'MED, adj. Not mentioned. Author of evil, unknown till thy revolt, Unnamed in heaven.

Milton's Paradise Lost. UNNATURAL, adj. Contrary to the laws UNNATURALNESS, n. s. of nature; contrary to UNNATURALLY, adv.

adverb and noun substantive corresponding. The God which is the God of nature doth never teach

unnaturalness.

Her offence

Must be of such unnatural degree, That monsters it.

Sidney.

Shakspeare. King Lear. 'Tis irreverent and unnatural to scoff at the infirmities of old age. L'Estrange. All the world have been frighted with an apparition of their own fancy, or they have most unnaturally conspired to cozen themselves.

Tillotson.

UNNAV'IGABLE, adj. Not to be navigated. Pindar's unnavigable song

Like a swift stream from mountains pours along.

Cowley.

Some who the depths of eloquence have found, In that unnavigable stream were drowned. Dryden. UNNECESSARY, adj. Needless; not wantUNNECESSARILY, adv. ed; useless: the adUNNECESSARINESS, n. s. verb and noun substantive corresponding.

The doing of things unnecessary is many times the cause why the most necessary are not done. Hooker.

Unnecessary coinage, as well as unnecessary revival of words, runs into affectation; a fault to be avoided on either hand.

Dryden.

UNNETH', adj. From un and Sax. eað, easy. UNNETHES'. Scarcely; hardly. Obsolete. Diggon, I am so stiffe and stanke, That unneth I may stand any more; And how the western wind bloweth sore, Beating the withered leaf from the tree. UNNO'BLE, adj.

noble.

Spenser.

Mean; ignominious; ig

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.

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.