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▪ I. unhele, n.
see unheal.
▪ II. unˈhele, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1 unhelan, 2–3 unhelen, 4–6 vnhele, 4–6, 9 dial., unhele (4 oun-), 6 Sc. vnheild-, 6–7 vnheale, 7–8, 9 dial., unheal, 8 unheel, 9 dial. unhale.
[OE. unhelan (un-2 3 + hele v.): cf. MDu. onthelen, MHG. enthelen, and unhill v.]
1. trans. To uncover (something) so as to display or make visible; hence fig., to discover, reveal, make patent or known. Also refl.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xii. 2 Nis nan þing oferheled, þe ne beo unheled. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 77 Seinte poul..minegeð us..þat we..cumen festliche to ure saule leche and unhelen him ure saule wundes. a1225Ancr. R. 150 Al so god dede þet wule adeaden forworpeð hire rinde, þet is, un⁓heleð hire. c1330Arth. & Merl. 2689 (Kölbing), Þe king..ladde him fram & gan his priuete vnhele, & bad, þat he it schuld hele. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VIII. 161 Here he is i-hud, but he is unheled. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 249/1 Netheles the body of saynt laurence was discouerd and un⁓heled by ygnorance. 1530Tindale Practice Prelates H vij, Thou shall not vnhele ye secretes of thy brothers wyffe. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xii. 64 Then suddeinly both would themselues vnhele.
2. To uncover so as to leave open or exposed; to strip of covering or (freq.) roofing material.
a1225Ancr. R. 58 Auh þe dom is ful strong upon ham þet unhelieð þene put. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 367 Þere was a welle in þat lond..alle wey i-heled; and ȝif it were vnheled, þe welle wexe and adrenche al þe lond. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xx. 301 Yf hus hous be vnheled and reyne on hus bedde. c1440Pallad. on Husb. ii. 56 Yet wol this werk the roote..Vnhele or kerue, and cold hit after quelle. 1501Douglas Pal. Hon. ii. xlv, I kneillit law, and vnheildit my heid. 1551Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1905) i. 28 Robarde foster hathe vnhellyde partte off thomas cupers housse. 1604Marston Malcontent ii. iii. D ij b, Would I were forcde To burne my fathers Tombe, vnheale [v.r. vnhill] his bones.., rather than this. 1610G. Fletcher Christ's Tri. ii. ix, Thear should the Swallowe see..the grave vn⁓heale his face, To let the living from his bowels creepe. 1730Budgen Passage of Hurricane fr. Bexhill 9 Mr John Collier had..the ridging of the house unheeled. 1741Phil. Trans. XLI. 852 It presently unhealed the House we were in. 1848–in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Unheal (Wilts, Dorset, Som., Devon). 1891T. Hardy Tess xlvii, They were busily ‘unhaling’ the rick, that is, stripping off the thatch.
†b. In pa. pple. Of the head: Uncovered. Obs.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiv. 232 He goth to cold beddynge, And his heued vn-heled vn-esiliche i-wrye. a1400–50Alexander 3450 Hire hede vn-helid was on hiȝe & hild all in trissis.
Hence unˈheler; unˈheling vbl. n.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xvii. (1869) 144 This hand is an vnmakere of howses, and an *vnhelere and brekere of cofres.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxvii. (Bodl. MS.), In acutis [febribus] *vnheling and puttinge oute of bare armes is tokene of deeþ. 1640in Archæol. Cant. (1902) XXV. 8 His mother being then in distress, by reason of the unhealing of her house by the late severe time. |