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Undisclose (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + disclose.] To keep close or secret. [Obs.] Daniel.
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Undiscreet (?), a. Indiscreet. Chaucer.
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-- Undiscreetly, adv. -- -- Undiscreetness.
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-- Undiscretion (#), n. Indiscretion.
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Undispensable (?), a. 1. Indispensable.
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2. Unavoidable; inevitable. [Obs.] Fuller.
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3. Not to be freed by dispensation. [Obs.]
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Undispensed (?), a. 1. Not dispensed.
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2. Not freed by dispensation. [R.] Tooker.
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Undisposedness (?), n. Indisposition; disinclination.
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Undisputable (?), a. Indisputable. Addison. -- Undisputableness, n.
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Undistinctive (?), a. Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial.
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As undistinctive Death will come here one day. Dickens.
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Undistinctly (?), adv. Indistinctly.
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Undivided (?), a. 1. Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole; continuous; as, plains undivided by rivers or mountains.
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2. Not set off, as a share in a firm; not made actually separate by division; as, a partner, owning one half in a firm, is said to own an undivided half so long as the business continues and his share is not set off to him.
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3. Not directed or given to more than one object; as, undivided attention or affection. Shak.
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4. (Bot.) Not lobed, cleft, or branched; entire.
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Undividual (?), a. Indivisible. [Obs.]
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True courage and courtesy are undividual companions. Fuller.
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Undivisible (?), a. Indivisible.
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Undo (?), v. t. [AS. und�n. See 1st , and Do to perform.] 1. To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.
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What's done can not be undone. Shak.
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To-morrow, ere the setting sun,
She 'd all undo that she had done. Swift.
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2. To loose; to open; to take to piece; to unfasten; to untie; hence, to unravel; to solve; as, to undo a knot; to undo a puzzling question; to undo a riddle. Tennyson.
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Pray you, undo this button. Shak.
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She took the spindle, and undoing the thread gradually, measured it. Sir W. Scott.
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3. To bring to poverty; to impoverish; to ruin, as in reputation, morals, hopes, or the like; as, many are undone by unavoidable losses, but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation, or by indolence.
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That quaffing and drinking will undo you, Shak.
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Undock (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + dock.] (Naut.) To take out of dock; as, to undock a ship.
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Undoer (?), n. One who undoes anything; especially, one who ruins another.
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Undoing, n. 1. The reversal of what has been done.
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2. Ruin. “The utter undoing of some.” Hooker.
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Undomesticate (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + domesticate.] To make wild or roving.
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Undone (?), p. p. of .
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Undone, a. [Pref. un- not + done.] Not done or performed; neglected.
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Undouble (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + double.] To unfold, or render single.
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Undoubtable (?), a. Indubitable.
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Undoubted, a. Not doubted; not called in question; indubitable; indisputable; as, undoubted proof; undoubted hero. -- Undoubtedly, adv.
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Undrape (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + drape.] To strip of drapery; to uncover or unveil.
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Undraw (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + draw.] To draw aside or open; to draw back.
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Angels undrew the curtain of the throne. Young.
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{ Undreamed (?), Undreamt (?), } a. Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not th�ught of; not imagined; -- often followed by of.
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Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
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Undress (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + dress.]
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1. To divest of clothes; to strip.
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2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
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3. (Med.) To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound.
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Undress (?), n. 1. A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.
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2. (Mil. & Naval) An authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform.
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Coloq. Undress parade (Mil.), a substitute for dress parade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.
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Undubitable (?), a. Indubitable; as, an undubitable principle. [Obs.] Locke.
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Undue (?), a. 1. Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.
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2. Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding. Bacon.
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3. Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.
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Coloq. Undue influence (Law), any improper or wrongful constraint, machination, or urgency of persuasion, by which one's will is overcome and he is induced to do or forbear an act which he would not do, or would do, if left to act freely. Abbott.
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Undueness, n. The quality of being undue.
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Unduke (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + duke.] To deprive of dukedom. Swift.
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Undulant (?), a. Undulating. [R.]
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Undulary (?), a. [See .] Moving like waves; undulatory. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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Undulate (?), a. [L. undulatus undulated, wavy, a dim. from unda a wave; cf. AS. ��, Icel. unnr; perhaps akin to E. water. Cf. , , , .] Same as .
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Undulate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Undulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Undulating.] To cause to move backward and forward, or up and down, in undulations or waves; to cause to vibrate.
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Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated and undulated. Holder.
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Undulate, v. i. To move in, or have, undulations or waves; to vibrate; to wave; as, undulating air.
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Undulated (?), a. 1. Resembling, or in the nature of, waves; having a wavy surface; undulatory.
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2. (Bot.) Waved obtusely up and down, near the margin, as a leaf or corolla; wavy.
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3. (Zoöl.) Formed with elevations and depressions resembling waves; having wavelike color markings; as, an undulated shell.
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Undulating, a. Rising and falling like waves; resembling wave form or motion; undulatory; rolling; wavy; as, an undulating medium; undulating ground. -- Undulatingly. adv.
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Undulation (?), n. [Cf. F. ondulation.] 1. The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound.
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2. A wavy appearance or outline; waviness. Evelyn.
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3. (Mus.) (a) The tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string, as of a violin. (b) The pulsation caused by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison; -- called also beat.
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4. (Physics) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated continuously among its particles, but with no translation of the particles themselves in the direction of the propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration.
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Undulationist, n. One who advocates the undulatory theory of light. Whewell.
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Undulative (?), a. Consisting in, or accompanied by, undulations; undulatory.
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Undulatory (?; 277), a. [Cf. F. ondulatoire.] Moving in the manner of undulations, or waves; resembling the motion of waves, which successively rise or swell rise or swell and fall; pertaining to a propagated alternating motion, similar to that of waves.
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Coloq. Undulatory theory , or Coloq. Wave theory (of light) (Opt.), that theory which regards the various phenomena of light as due to undulations in an ethereal medium, propagated from the radiant with immense, but measurable, velocities, and producing different impressions on the retina according to their amplitude and frequency, the sensation of brightness depending on the former, that of color on the latter. The undulations are supposed to take place, not in the direction of propagation, as in the air waves constituting sound, but transversely, and the various phenomena of refraction, polarization, interference, etc., are attributable to the different affections of these undulations in different circumstances of propagation. It is computed that the frequency of the undulations corresponding to the several colors of the spectrum ranges from 458 millions of millions per second for the extreme red ray, to 727 millions of millions for the extreme violet, and their lengths for the same colors, from the thirty-eight thousandth to the sixty thousandth part of an inch. The theory of ethereal undulations is applicable not only to the phenomena of light, but also to those of heat.
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Undull (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + dull.] To remove the dullness of; to clear. [Obs.] Whitlock.
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Undulous (?), a. Undulating; undulatory.
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Unduly (?), adv. In an undue manner.
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Undumpish (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + dumpish.] To relieve from the dumps. [Obs.] Fuller.
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Undust (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + dust.] To free from dust. [Obs.]
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Undwellable (?), a. Uninhabitable. [Obs.] “A land undwellable.” Wyclif.
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Undwelt (?), a. Not lived (in); -- with in.
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Undying (?), a. Not dying; imperishable; unending; immortal; as, the undying souls of men.
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Uneared (?), a. Not eared, or plowed. Shak.
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Unearned (?), a. Not earned; not gained by labor or service.
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Coloq. Unearned increment (Polit. Econ.), a increase in the value of land due to no labor or expenditure on the part of the owner, but to natural causes, such as the increase of population, the growth of a town in the vicinity, or the like. Some hold that this should belong to the nation.
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Unearth (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Unearthed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Unearthing.] [1st pref. un- + earth.] To drive or draw from the earth; hence, to uncover; to bring out from concealment; to bring to light; to disclose; as, to unearth a secret.
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To unearth the roof of an old tree. Wordsworth.
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Unearthly, a. Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Unearthliness (#), n.
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Unease (?), n. Want of ease; uneasiness. [Obs.]
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Uneasily (?), adv. In an easy manner.
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Uneasiness, n. 1. The quality or state of being uneasy; restlessness; disquietude; anxiety.
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2. The quality of making uneasy; discomfort; as, the uneasiness of the road. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.
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Uneasy (?), a. 1. Not easy; difficult. [R.]
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Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood. Boyle.
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The road will be uneasy to find. Sir W. Scott.
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2. Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed.
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The soul, uneasy and confined from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come. Pope.
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3. Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful; as, an uneasy deportment.
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4. Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing. “His uneasy station.” Milton.
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A sour, untractable nature makes him uneasy to those who approach him. Addison.
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Uneath (?), a. [AS. uneá�e; un- not + eá�� easily, easy; akin to OS. ��i easy, OHG. �di.] Not easy; difficult; hard. [Obs.]
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Who he was, uneath was to descry. Spenser.
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Uneath, adv. Not easily; hardly; scarcely. [Obs.]
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Uneath may she endure the flinty streets. Shak.
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Unedge (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + edge.] To deprive of the edge; to blunt. J. Fletcher.
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Unefectual (?), a. Ineffectual. “His uneffectual fire.” Shak.
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Unelastic (?), a. Not elastic; inelastic.
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Unelasticity (?), n. Inelasticity.
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Unelegant (?), a. Inelegant.
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Uneligible (?), a. Ineligible. Rogers.
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Unembarrassed (?), a. Not embarrassed. Specifically: --
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(a) Not perplexed in mind; not confused; as, the speaker appeared unembarrassed.
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(b) Free from pecuniary difficulties or encumbrances; as, he and his property are unembarrassed.
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(c) Free from perplexing connection; as, the question comes into court unembarrassed with irrelevant matter.
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Unembarrassment (?), n. Freedom from embarrassment.
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Unembodied (?), a. 1. Free from a corporeal body; disembodied; as, unembodied spirits. Byron.
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2. Not embodied; not collected into a body; not yet organized; as, unembodied militia.
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Unempirically (?), adv. Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
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Unemployed (?), a. 1. Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.
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2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
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3. (Economics) actively seeking employment but unable to find a suitable job.
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Unemployment (?), n. Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent. Unemployment is usually cointed as the condition of those who wish to work, but cannot find a suitable job, rather than others who may voluntarily refrain from working, such as retired persons, youth, or those remaining at home to care for young children. The Coloq. unemployment rate in economics is thus the proportion of those actively seeking work but unable to find it, to the total labor force, expressed as a percentage.
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Unencumber (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + encumber.] To free from incumbrance; to disencumber.
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Unendly (?), a. [Pref. un- not + end + -ly.] Unending; endless. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
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Unentangle (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + entangle.] To disentangle.
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Unequal (?), a. [Cf. .] 1. Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.
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2. Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair.
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Against unequal arms to fight in pain. Milton.
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Jerome, a very unequal relator of the opinion of his adversaries. John Worthington.
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To punish me for what you make me do
Seems much unequal. Shak.
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3. Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.
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4. Not adequate or sufficient; inferior; as, the man was unequal to the emergency; the timber was unequal to the sudden strain.
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5. (Bot.) Not having the two sides or the parts symmetrical.
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Unequalable (?), a. Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. [Obs.] Boyle.
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Unequaled (?), a. Not equaled; unmatched; unparalleled; unrivaled; exceeding; surpassing; -- in a good or bad sense; as, unequaled excellence; unequaled ingratitude or baseness. [Written also unequalled.]
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Unequally (?), adv. In an unequal manner.
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Coloq. Unequally pinnate (Bot.), pinnate, but with an odd number of leaflets.
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Unequalness, n. The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor.
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Unequitable (?), a. Inequitable.
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Unequity (?), n. Want of equity or uprightness; injustice; wickedness; iniquity. [Obs.] Wyclif.
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Unequivocal (?), a. Not equivocal; not doubtful; not ambiguous; evident; sincere; plain; as, unequivocal evidence; unequivocal words. -- Unequivocally, adv. -- Unequivocalness, n.
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Unerring (?), a. Committing no mistake; incapable or error or failure certain; sure; unfailing; as, the unerring wisdom of God.
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Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew. Dryden.
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Unerringly, adv. In an unerring manner.
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Unessential (?), a. 1. Not essential; not of prime importance; not indispensable; unimportant. Addison.
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2. Void of essence, or real being. [R.] Milton.
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Unessential, n. Something not constituting essence, or something which is not of absolute necessity; as, forms are among the unessentials of religion.
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Unessentially, adv. In an unessential manner.
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Unestablish (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + establish.] To disestablish. [R.]
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The Parliament demanded of the king to unestablish that prelatical government. Milton.
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{ Uneth (ŭnĕth), Unethes (?) }, adv. With difficulty; scarcely. See . [Written also unethe, unneth, unnethe, unnethes, etc.] [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Uneven (?), a. [AS. unefen. See not, and , a.] 1. Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground.
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2. Not equal; not of equal length.
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Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet. Peacham.
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3. Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of numbers; as, 3, 7, and 11 are uneven numbers.
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Unevenly, adv. -- Unevenness, n.
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Unevitable (?), a. Inevitable. [Obs.]
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Unexact (?), a. Not exact; inexact.
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Unexampled (?), a. Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. “A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results.” De Quincey.
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Unexceptionable (?), a. Not liable to any exception or objection; unobjectionable; faultless; good; excellent; as, a man of most unexceptionable character. -- Unexceptionableness (#), n. -- Unexceptionably, adv.
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