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▪ I. unˈbound, ppl. a.1
Forms: (see bind v.).
[un-1 8 b. Cf. MDu. and Du. ongebonden, MHG. and G. ungebunden, NFris. ünbünjen, ON. and Icel. ú-, óbundinn (Da. unbunden, Sw. obunden).]
1. a. Not bound or tied up; unfastened. Also with up.
αa900Laws of ælfred c. 35 Ᵹif he hine to preoste bescire unbundenne, mid xxx scill. ᵹebete. a1000Ags. Riddles xxiii. [xxiv.] 15 Nelle ic unbunden æniᵹum hyran, nymðe searosælod. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xlvii. (Euphemia) 49 Vnbundine [he] gert hir cum þare Ymang þame þat bundyn var sar. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §28 So the barley lyeth vnbounden .iii. or .iiii. dayes.., and than to bynde it.
βc1440Alph. Tales 357 With þe ta syde of hur heade vnbun vpp sho ran to feght agayn þaim of Babilon. 1570Levins Manip. 221 Vnbound, liber. 1600Fairfax Tasso xvi. xviii, Her lockes vnbound, wau'd in the wanton winde. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 603 Though..they binde Volatil Hermes, and call up unbound In various shapes old Proteus from the Sea. 1757W. Wilkie Epigon. ii. 47 Now, tam'd by age, his coursers stood unbound. 1808Scott Marm. iv. iv, Some damsel flying fast, With hair unbound, and looks aghast. 1892Gunter Miss Dividends (1893) 248 The moonlight shining through the car window gets into her unbound hair.
b. fig. Unconfined, unconstrained; not bound by any engagement, vow, etc.
1390Gower Conf. II. 393 It helpeth more..than forto crave Of othre men and make him bounde, Wher elles he mai stonde unbounde. c1470Gol. & Gaw. 1040 Bot ilk berne has bene vnbundin with blame. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 684/1 God..hauing his power absolute, fre, and vnbounden vnto any maner of hys ordinary course. 1603J. Davies (Heref.) Microcosmos Wks. (Grosart) I. 66/1 To court bright beauty match'd, as t'were vnbound. 1790Cowper Mother's Pict. 87, I should ill requite thee to constrain Thy unbound spirit into bonds again. 1859Tennyson Elaine 1377 Yet thee She fail'd to bind, tho' being, as I think, Unbound as yet.
c. Not bound as apprentice. rare.
1497–8in Archæol. Jrnl. XLIII. 168 A fyne lost by R. Bancrofte for..settyng to werk a child vnbound & vnablid.
2. Not secured with a band or border of some strong material.
1531Rec. St. Mary at Hill 38, viij kettelles bound and vnbond. 1547in Feuillerat Revels Edw. VI (1914) 17 One Black chest bounde with Irone & ij other Chestes vnbounde.
3. Of books: Not provided with a binding or cover. Also with up.
1541Acts Privy Council 25 Apr., Anthony Marler..might sell the bibles of the Gret volume unbounde for x. s sterl[ing]. 1549(Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer Colophon, That no maner of person do sell this present booke unbounde, aboue the price of ii. Shyllynges the piece. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iii. x. §27 A Book-seller, who had in his Ware-house Volumes that lay there unbound, and without Titles. 1720Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) VII. 161 The Textus..will be sent unbound as desired. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. xi, One other leaf of that mighty volume..left to fly abroad, unprinted, unpublished, unbound up. 1896T. L. de Vinne Moxon's Mech. Exerc., Printing 401 The complete book on printing, unbound, then cost 14s. 4d.
fig.1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. iii. 87 This precious Booke of Loue, this vnbound Louer, To Beautifie him, onely lacks a Couer.
4. Of substances: In a loose or free state. Also of a particle: = free a. 14 b.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 98 While the Turf lies open, and unbound, Succeeding Suns may bake the Mellow Ground. 1902Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 June 146 Their methods..would only extract and precipitate the unbound purin. 1971Sci. Amer. June 25/1 Once a few unbound electrons are produced on the surface of the solid hydrogen isotope, these free electrons rapidly pick up energy from the incident oscillating electric field.
▪ II. unˈbound, ppl. a.2 rare—1.
[un-1 8 + bound ppl. a.1]
Unprovided, destitute.
a1300Cursor M. 24034, I stakerd sua i moght not stand, Bot als þai me up-held wit hand Vn-bun was i o bote.
▪ III. † unˈbound, ppl. a.3 Obs.
[un-1 + bound v.]
Unbounded; boundless.
1593Queen Elizabeth Boeth. ii. pr. vii. 53 The lasting of any longest tyme, if it be matcht with vnbounde eternitie, not small but none shall seeme. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. ii. §1 (1622) 198 The vnlimited and vnbound extension of the Appetites of Man. c1658Elegy on Cleveland 16 C.'s Wks. (1687) 284 Such was the Fate of my weak Streams, that ran To drown themselves in th' unbound Ocean. c1725Ramsay Some of Contents ii, Dunbar does with unbound ingyne, In satyre, joke, and in the serious schyne.
▪ IV. unˈbound, v. rare.
[un-2 3.]
trans. To deprive of bounds or limits.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas iii. ii. Colonies 178 The thirst of Vengeance, and that puffing breath Of elvish Honour..Un-bound all Countries. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. v. 104 Gowr, whose promontory (plac'd to check the ocean's pow'r) Kept in Severne yet herself, till being growne too great Shee with extended armes unbounds her ancient seat.
▪ V. unbound
pa. pple. of unbind v. |