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▪ I. unˈclose, a. Now rare.
[un-1 7.]
a. Not closed; open.
b. Unreserved.
c. Not intimate; distant.
c1400Destr. Troy 4688 The Grekes..Comyn to the castell, (vnclose were the yatis). 1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. Captains 1075 Known Designs are dangerous to act: And th' vnclose Chief did never noble fact. 1651Buchanan's Detection Mary Q. Scots 59 A house..not [only]..unclose, but [even] open to pass through. 1659A. Hay Diary (S.H.S.) 227 Notwithstanding my unclose walking, yet the Lord had been very kind to me.
▪ II. unˈclose, v.
[un-2 3 and 7.]
1. trans. To make open; to cause to open.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1438 He with keyes vn-closes kystes ful mony. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 23 Aurora, ageyne the morowe gray, Causith the daysy hir croune to unclose. 1530Palsgr. 766/2 These letters shall nat be unclosed for me, I wot nat from whence they come. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 101 They vnclose and shake theyr handes. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. (1823) lxxviii. x, He unclos'd the garners of the skies. 1700Dryden Cymon & Iph. 177 At length awaking, Iphigene the fair..Unclos'd her eyes. 1761Gray Descent Odin 49 Unwilling I my lips unclose. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho viii, She unclosed the casement to listen to the strains of the music. 1827Scott Surg. Dau. ix, Surely the demons of Ambition and Avarice will unclose the talons which they have fixed upon this man. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. ix, The woman slowly unclosed her large dark eyes, and looked vacantly at her.
absol.1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 20333 Yiff they hadde commyssioun..Bothe to shette and ek vnclose.
b. fig. To disclose, make known, reveal.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 26 Me mynez on one amonge oþer, as maþew recordez, Þat þus of clannesse vn-closez a ful cler speche. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 2760 How sore aforn that they yt close, ye muste hem make yt to vnclose By trewe reuelacyon. 1446― Two Nightingale P. ii. 51 The briddes song I shal to the vnclose. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. viii. 212 He..uncloses the treasures of that celestial wisdom which speaks to men.
†c. To detach, unharness. Obs.—1
1615Chapman Odyss. iv. 32 Inform your pleasure, if we shall unclose Their horse from coach.
2. intr. To become open.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 65 Hire [the daisy's] chere is pleynly sprad in the brightnesse Of the sonne for ther yt wol vnclose. c1400Destr. Troy 807 In hor mouthe caste [it], And þai clappe shall full clene, & neuer vnclose aftur. c1440Pallad. on Husb. vi. 218 Take roses that bigynneth forto vnclose. 1725Pope Odyss. xviii. 235 Wak'd at their steps, her flowing eyes unclose. a1785Glover Athenaid xxvii, Now they reach The further mouth unclosing in a dale Abrupt. 1808Helen St. Victor Ruins of Rigonda II. 94 She perceived her curtains unclose, and the form of her mother leaning over her. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths I. 54 She heard the door underneath unclose.
†3. trans. To hatch. Obs. (Cf. disclose v. 3 b.)
1486Bk. St. Albans, Hawking a ij, And when they [sc. hawks] bene unclosed and begynneth to feder any thyng of lengthe anoon be kynde they will draw somwatt out of the nest. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 325 Of Eagles it maie be taken, that their young ones doe sucke bloud anone after they be unclosed.
Hence unˈclosing vbl. n.
1705Stevens ii. s.v., An Unclosing of that which was shut, abertura. 1840Poe W. Wilson Wks. 1864 I. 428 The violent, although partial unclosing of the door. 1874Contemp. Rev. Oct. 690 The unclosing of the potential parts of a plant in its development from a germ. |