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unˈscreened, (ppl.) a.
[un-1 8, 9.]
1. Not protected or covered with a screen.
1648Boyle Seraph. Love xxvi. (1659) 167 Their being expos'd (unskreen'd) to the Sun's refulgent beams. 1783R. Graves Euphrosyne II. 113 Yet in those eyes we see..(More bright un-screen'd) the pow'r..To make new conquests. 1801Monthly Mag. XII. 224 If I sit unscreened, with my back to the fire. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede liv, The little, grey, desolate-looking hamlet, unscreened by sheltering trees. 1891Nature 20 Aug., Similar actions on cometary matter, unscreened as it is by an absorptive atmosphere.
2. a. Not passed through a screen; unsifted.
1851Laxton Builder's Price Bk. 132 Gravel unscreened, 5s. 0d. Per cubic yard. 1888Encycl. Dict. s.v., Unscreened coal. 1900Daily News 21 May 2/1 Unscreened town's refuse.
b. Not investigated or checked for security: see screen v. 4 c.
1970R. Clapperton Victims Unknown xi. 101, I have been severely criticised..for authorising the employment on intelligence work of an unscreened individual. 1979H. Kissinger White House Years xix. 748 The beady eye of Secret Service agents Ready and McLeod, who were not about to leave me to the mercy of unscreened foreigners. |