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▪ I. unˈharnessed, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8.]
†1. Not ornamented or trimmed. Obs.
1488Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 83 A belt of crammassy hernessit with gold and braid;..a belt of gold vnharnessit.
2. Not provided with or wearing armour.
a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. 308 Kynge Rycharde,..with a fewe accompanyed & vnharnaysed, shulde comme to y⊇ Frenshe Kynges tent. 1562Pilkington Expos. Abdyas 55, 300 naked men unharnessed,..vanquished them all. 1586Hooker Conq. Irel. i. xlii. 28/1 in Holinshed, As in combates in England, so they being vnharnessed, did fight with their swords or weapons in the open sight of the people. 1721Ramsay Poems 397 Ungeard, naked, not clad, unharness'd.
3. Not fitted with, or put into, harness.
1608Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. Schisme 298 Chariots, unfurnisht and unharnest. 1697Dryden æneis ix. 425 Un⁓harnessed chariots stand along the shore. 1791Cowper Iliad ii. 950 Beside the chariots stood the unharness'd steeds Cropping the lotus.
b. Not adapted for industrial use.
1903Kipling Five Nations 57 Watching unharnessed rapids wasting fifty thousand head an hour.
▪ II. unˈharnessed, ppl. a.2
[f. unharness v.]
1. Released from harness.
1676Hobbes Iliad 212 The horses, that me brought, un⁓harnessed Attend me at the foot of Ida hill. 1725Pope Odyss. vi. 103 The mules unharness'd range beside the main. 1859Dickens Holly Tree i. (1899) 31, I had the honour of leading one of the unharnessed post-horses.
fig.1867Macgregor Voy. Alone ii. 29, I reclined unharnessed in the cabin, reading intently.
2. Divested of armour.
1664Butler Hud. ii. ii. 49 Where now arriv'd, and half unharnest, To carry on the work in earnest, He stopp'd. |