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unˈhusbanded, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not improved by husbandry; untilled, uncultivated:
a. Of ground.
1538Elyot, Incultus, a place vnhusbanded or vntilled. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 184 No foot of land is left vnhusbanded. 1628Robson News fr. Aleppo 13 The vnhusbanded plaines, for many miles together blame their stupidity. 1654Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Wars Flanders 134 Other little islands..are almost nameless, as being almost unhusbanded. 1894Pall Mall G. 1 Nov. 2/3 Dwellers for the more part in remote, unhusbanded districts.
b. Of plants or trees.
1615G. Sandys Trav. ii. 116 A desert producing here and there a few vnhusbanded Palmes. 1616W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. v. 341, I have beheld A widow vine,..Unhusbanded, neglected, all forlorne. 1620Brinsley Virgil 43/2 The great brambles vnhusbanded (or vntrimmed, or not cut) but wilde. 1888Doughty Arabia Deserta II. 184, I went..to dig up off-sets of unhusbanded young palms.
2. Not provided with a husband.
[1775Ash.] 1797Southey Eng. Ecl., Hannah 19 She bore unhusbanded a mother's pains. 1879Meredith Egoist xxxii, He considered himself to have been too lenient to the wine of an unhusbanded hostess. |