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unˈground, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b.]
1. Not ground in a mill; not crushed or reduced to powder.
1488Acta Dom. Conc. (1839) 98/2 Half a boll of malt vn⁓grond, price xs. 1623Fletcher & Rowley Maid in Mill v. ii, Shall the sayls of my love stand still? Shall the grists of my hopes be unground? 1631Gouge God's Arrows ii. §24. 163 Some of them did eate the corne as it was unground. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 300 A hundred sacks of unground malt. 1760Ann. Reg., Chron. 192/2 A duty of 1d. ½..shall be paid on every bushel of malt, whether ground or unground, which [etc.]. 1805Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 211 The trials which Dr. Hunter made with ground and unground bones. 1882U.S. Rep. Prec. Met. 603 The mill is then stopped, [and] the water drained off from the unground sand and mercury.
2. Not sharpened, smoothed, or worn down by grinding.
1611Cotgr. s.v. Morfil, The edge side of a new and vnground knife. 1793Phil. Trans. LXXXIII. 92 The swinging level.., fixed to the tube of the telescope,..is unground. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. viii. 193 The finding of hundreds of unground implements. 1893Athenæum 25 Mar. 382/2 The palæolithic or unground stage of the implement-maker's art. |