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unˈkembed, ppl. a. Now rare.
Forms: α. 4, 6–7 vnkemd (7 unkem'd), 5 vnkemmyde, 6 Sc. vnkemmit, 6–7 vnkemmed (9 un-). β. 5 vnkembyd, 6 -keembd, 7 -kembed, -kemb'd, -kembd.
[un-1 8. Cf. ON. úkembdr, MHG. ungekembet.]
Uncombed, unkempt.
1390Gower Conf. III. 260 Hire her hangende unkemd aboute. 1483Cath. Angl. 202/1 Vn kembyd,..jmcomptus, impexus. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 80 b, He brought theim foorth vnkembed & vnpiked, without cotes. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. i. (1590) 16 Hir haire unkemd about hir necke downe flaring. 1627May Lucan vi. 585 Laden she is with long vnkemmed haires. 1693Dryden Juvenal iii. 121 His once unkem'd, and horrid Locks. 1697View Penal Laws 267, 1000 Tods of unkemb'd Wool. 1824Carr Craven Gloss., Unkemmed, [1828 Unkemb'd,] uncombed. 1860Sir J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth Scarsdale II. 28 Ungroomed, and unkemmed strings of ‘gals’.
fig.1577tr. Bullinger's Decades i. i. 13/1 In these plaine and simple, not darke and vnkemmed books, is comprehended the ful doctrine of godlynes. |