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▪ I. unˈcut, ppl. a.
Also 5 unkyt.
[un-1 8 b, 8 c.]
1. a. Not cut, gashed, or wounded with a sharp-edged instrument; not having received a cut.
1426Audelay Poems (Percy Soc.) 12 Who mai kepe hym unkyt fro a kene knyfe, Ȝif he boldly that blad touche in his tene. 1615Work for Cutlers 4 Ile make a Capon of you before I haue done with you, you shall nere come home vncut Ile warrant you. 1623Massinger & Field Bondman iv. ii, Gracculo. [We'll] not leave One house unfired. Cimbrio. Or throat uncut of those We have in our power. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1863) 236 An open book, the leaves kept down..by a most enticing uncut pine apple. 1840Eliza Cook To Favourite Pony v, Thy knees uncut, my bones unshatter'd.
b. Without being operated on.
a1548Hall Chron., Edw. V, 1 b, Shee could not be delivered of hym uncut.
2. a. That has not been subjected to cutting; not severed by cutting; not mown, lopped, etc.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John xix. 110 Therfore the souldiers thought good that it should be kept whole unkut. 1583Greene Mamillia Wks. (Grosart) II. 49 The grasse looketh better being vncut, then that which withereth with the sieth. a1593Marlowe Ovid's Elegies iii. i. 1 An old wood, stands vncut of long yeares space. 1639Horn & Rob. Gate Lang. Unl. lxi. §641 Heathenish Priests in their Temples & uncut groves, dedicated presents. 1745Transl. & Paraphr. Sc. Ch. xxiv. i, Say, grows the Rush without the Mire?.. Green and Uncut, it quickly fades. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. I. 27 Clad in bark,..with his hair and nails uncut. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 323 Keep these branches uncut till you arrive at the season of grafting. 1885Times (weekly ed.) 25 Sept. 13/4 A few of the fields being still uncut.
b. With down or up.
1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 27 He that hangth him selfe a sondaie Shall hang still vncut downe a mondaie for mee. 1607Beaum. & Fl. Woman Hater i. ii, Great, cumbersom, un-cut-up pies..to make a shew with.
3. Not fashioned or shaped by cutting.
uncut diamond, uncut velvet, etc.: cf. cut ppl. a.
1596Acc. Bk. W. Wray in Antiquary XXXII. 281, j li. cut and uncut fringe, iiij s. 1605Drayton Poems 69 b, Which being now but in so meane a bed, Is like an vncut diamond in lead. a1700Evelyn Diary 22 Oct. 1644, With a terrace at each side having rustic uncut balustrades. 1771F. Burney Early Diary (1889) I. 121 She fixed upon a suite of dark blue, uncut velvet. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 695/2 Until 1476..the diamond was worn uncut. 1902Marshall Metal Tools 41 Most flat files are provided with one plain, uncut edge.
4. a. Of books: Not having the leaves cut open.
1828Macaulay Misc. Writ. (1860) I. 273 The new novel lies uncut. 1850Mrs. Carlyle Lett. (1883) II. 125 The new ‘Copperfield’..to this hour remains uncut. 1893Liddon, etc. Life Pusey I. xii. 276 The copy of the published sermon which was sent him ‘from the author’ is still uncut.
b. Not having the margins cut down.
1809Dibdin Bibliomania 60 Uncut Copies,..books of which the edges have never been sheared by the binder's tools. Ibid. 61 An uncut first Shakspeare, as well as an uncut first Homer. 1863Hotten Hand-bk. Topogr. 95/1 Fine uncut copy (sells at {pstlg}4 5s.) 35s. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab., Uncut edges, books not cut down, but not necessarily ‘unopened’.
c. transf. Given to collecting ‘uncut’ books.
1862Burton Bk. Hunter (1882) 19 He was not a black letter man or a tall copyist or an uncut man.
5. Not curtailed or shortened. Also, without excisions or omissions.
1896Westm. Gaz. 7 Dec. 3/2 The uncut ‘first night’ is apt to cause great injustice to the performers. 1946Partisan Rev. Nov.—Dec. 577 O'Neill's new play..is guaranteed to last two-and-a-half hours longer than any other play, with the exception of the uncut Hamlet. 1953K. Reisz Technique Film Editing xii. 193 The documentary or story-film editor's job..requires a subtler understanding and interpretation of the shades of meaning in the uncut shots. 1960News Chron. 15 Mar. 8/3 His film ‘India 1958’, so far only seen in the uncut version at private showings. 1967Guardian 9 May 5/3 (heading) Film director defends uncut ‘Ulysses’. Ibid., ‘Ulysses’ is due to be shown uncut at the Academy Cinema in London from June 1.
6. Undiluted, unadulterated.
1967C. Drummond Death at Furlong Post vii. 104 All six of the Dancer's gaffs have been taken to pieces. Four ounces of uncut heroin. 1978T. Williamson Technicians of Death vi. 43 They can produce very large amounts of uncut heroin.
▪ II. † unˈcut, v. Obs.
[un-2 9.]
trans. To sever by cutting.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. 13 Behold how God began to vncut the knot of those bands with which the English held France bound. 1622Prosopopoeia in Phœnix Brit. (1732) I. 314 You see it is of a greater Consequence than to uncut a Gordian Knot. |