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unˈshorn, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. OE. unscoren, MDu. ongescoren (Du. -schoren), OHG. ungescoran (MHG. ungeschorn, G. -schoren), ON. úskorinn (Sw. oskuren, Da. uskaaren).]
1. Not shorn, cut, or cropped:
a. Of cloth.
1464Rolls of Parlt. V. 564/2 [No person shall buy] eny Wolles than unshorn, or take promesse of bargayn of eny Wolles than unshoren. 1486Bk. St. Albans b v, A dagon or pece of Rough blanket vnshoron. 1535–[see unbarbed 1]. 1597Shakes. Lover's Compl. 94 His phenix downe began but to appeare Like vnshorne veluet. 1675Hobbes Odyssey (1677) 232 He wore a purple vest, Unshorn, and lin'd. 1700Dryden Flower & Leaf 266 White Velvet, but unshorn, for Cloaks they wore. 1716Gay Trivia i. 47 True Witney broad-cloth, with its shag unshorn.
b. Of persons or animals, hair, etc.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. xx. 118 The heer of wommennys heed vnschorn. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Intonsus, Sheepe vnshorne. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. 138 Bye not your Sheepe but washed and vnshorne. 1596W. Smith Chloris xlviii, Those curled locks which thou wast wont to twist, Vnkempt, vnshorne, and out of order beene. 1628Milton Vac. Exerc. 37 Listening to what unshorn Apollo sings. 1693Dryden tr. Ovid's Met. i. 766 As the Locks of Phœbus are unshorn. 1820Keats Eve St. Agnes viii, All amort, Save to St. Agnes and her lambs unshorn. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxix, The caresses of the old gentleman, unshorn and perfumed with tobacco.
c. Of corn, fields, etc.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 105 Some mowe vp their hedlonds and plots among corne, and driuen to leaue nothing, vnmowne, or vnshorne. 1601Campion Wks. (1909) 21 A Meadow yet vnshorne. 1631Quarles Samson Wks. (Grosart) II. 155/2 His rip'ned Corne; Whereof, some part..stood unshorne. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. v. 98 The mountain-tops unshorn, the rocks, rejoice. 1757Akenside Pleas. Imag. i. 316 The pathless woods unshorn That wave o'er huge Olympus. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xxvi, Of mountain fir, with bark unshorn. a1850Bryant Prairies 2 These are..The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets vii. 222 This garland..Of wilding flowers plucked from an unshorn meadow.
2. fig. Not reduced or diminished; not deprived of something.
1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. lxxii, An Iris sits..and..bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn. 1818Keats ‘There is a charm’ 12 One who was great through mortal days, and died of fame unshorn. 1821–2Shelley Chas. I, ii. 142 To his God Alone he must deliver up his trust, Unshorn of its permitted attributes. |