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▪ I. unˈpruned, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8 + prune v.1]
Not smoothed with the beak.
1820Keats Eve St. Agnes xxxvii, A dove..with sick unpruned wing.
▪ II. unˈpruned, ppl. a.2
[un-1 8 + prune v.2]
Not trimmed by cutting or lopping.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iv. 45 Her Fruit-trees all vn⁓pruin'd, her Hedges ruin'd. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iii. i. ii. 673 If they [sc. women] be not curbed in time, as an vnproyned tree. 1649Ogilby tr. Virg., Bucol. ii. (1684) 12 On th' Elm my unprun'd Vines neglected are. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Epodes xvi. 52 Where..Vines unprun'd their blushing Clusters yield. 1801Southey Thalaba xii. xviii, The unpruned taper flares a longer flame. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 24 The hedges grow in unpruned luxuriance. 1882Garden 21 Jan. 49/3 An idea prevails that birds are not so likely to spoil an unpruned tree.
b. In fig. uses.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. ii. 18 After his..vnpolished, vneducated, vnpruned, vntrained..fashion. 1619Middleton Love & Antiq. B 3, A Common-wealth That is vndrest, vnpruin'd, wilde in her health. 1628Feltham Resolves ii. xxviii. 89 No man ha's preheminence, but wishes to preserue it in vnpruned state. 1814Monthly Rev. LXXIV. 308 Addison lives, but not undecaying, nor unpruned. 1878Masque Poets 181 They let their unpruned fancies roll Round some old theme like hop-vines round a pole. |