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▪ I. unˈspread, ppl. a.
Also 7 unspreaden.
[un-1 8 b.]
Not spread (out).
1589Fleming Virg. Georg. iii. 44 Lodging all night long he lies..Vpon a couch vnmade (vnspread). 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. 21 Remember that some things unspreaden be, How shall it find them out? 1644G. Plattes in Hartlib's Legacy (1655) 188 Where dung hath..layen unspread for a moneth or six weeks. 1776C. Keith Farmer's Ha' lxi, The dishes set on unspread table. 1827Pollok Course T. vi. 633 Bounding immensity, unspread, unbound! 1838Mrs. Browning Young Queen 1 The shroud is yet unspread. 1844― Confessions iii, Unquickened, unspread My fire dropt down.
▪ II. unˈspread, v.
(un-2 3.)
1661K. W. Conf. Charac. (1860) 69 He's so used to spread cloaths, that he's ne're well but when he's unspreading of aprons. |