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unˈhandled, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. MDu. ongehandelt, OHG. ungehandelôt, MDa. uhandlet (not negotiated).]
1. Of horses, etc.: Not broken in; untamed.
1558N. Co. Wills (Surtees 1912) 12 My yong blacke hambling gelding unhandlyd. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. v. i. 72 A wilde and wanton heard Or race of youthful and vnhandled colts. 1639T. de la Grey Expert Farrier 302 Horses unhandled, to wit, in their youth. 1812Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 68 Every description of horse, or mule, whether previously broke or unhandled. 1902Kipling The Islanders 21 Sons of the sheltered city—unmade, unhandled, unmeet—Ye pushed them raw to the battle.
2. Not dealt with or treated of.
1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, iii. ii. 58 Cardinall Campeius..Ha's left the cause o' th' King vnhandled. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 79 The extraction of oyles is yet unhandled.
b. Untried, unemployed.
1826Galt Last of Lairds xi. 103 There's no a claw..the whilk Caption will leave unhandled.
3. Not touched with the hand. Also fig.
a1657R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 218 Those [delights] that..after an advantagious intermission return fresh and unhandled to the senses. 1745Eliza Heywood Female Spect. No. 17 (1748) III. 258 The plumb unhandled lost its bloom. 1794Coleridge Lett. (1895) 59, I, too, possessed the tender irritableness of unhandled sensibility. |