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unˈshod, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b, or f. unshoe v. Cf. unshoed ppl. a. and Sw. oskodd.]
1. Of persons, or the feet: Having a shoe or shoes not put on, or taken off; not wearing shoes, barefooted.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. v. 45 Ðonne bið us suiðe fracoðlice oðer fot unscod. c1000ælfric Deut. xxv. 10 Nemne hine ælc man on Israhela folce unsceoda. a1300Cursor M. 15099 Tuelue or ma o men vnscod þan has he wit him broght. 1382Wyclif Isaiah xx. 3 As wente..lsaie nakid and vnshod. Ibid. 4. 1596 Spenser F.Q. ii. xi. 23 There follow'd fast at hand two wicked Hags,..Their feet vnshod, their bodies wrapt in rags. 1627Drayton Battle of Agincourt 26 Vnshod, and without stockings are the best. 1693tr. Emilianne's Hist. Monast. Ord. 156 The Order of the Unshod Carmelites. 1728Pope Dunc. iii. 114 Men bearded, bald,..shod, unshod. 1781Cowper Ep. Prot. Lady 16 With unshod feet they yet securely tread. 1849C. Brontë Shirley xxxiii, He left his shoes on the mat; mounted the stairs unshod. 1870Rossetti Burden Nineveh ix, Any god Before whose feet men knelt unshod.
absol.1382Wyclif Deut. xxv. 10 The hows of the vnshod. 1847F. Prandi tr. Cantu's Ref. Europe I. 212 The Order of the Unshod.
transf.1535Coverdale Deut. xxv. 10 And his name shalbe called in Israel, the vnshodd house.
2. Of horses: Having cast a shoe or shoes; not furnished with shoes.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xviii. 9/2 Most part of their horses [were] hurt on their back, nor they had nat wherwith to shoo them, that were vnshodde. 1530Palsgr. 768/2 Your horse is unshod of bothe his hynder fete. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. 529 They use their Horses unshod. 1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1569/4 One dark bay Nag,..lately rowelled, and trots all, and unshod. 1839Darwin Voy. Nat. x. 225 [It] would soon disable an unshod horse from taking part in the chase.
3. Not protected by an iron rim, toe-piece, etc.
1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 87 A pair wheles vnshodd. 1557in Raine Richmond. Wills (1853) 101 One yron bound wayne and ij. unshode cowpes. 1601in Moryson Itin. ii. (1617) 204 Ten Culuerings..mounted vpon vnshod wheeles. 1660Act 12 Chas. II, c. 4 Rates, Shovells, unshod, the dozen, iijs. iiijd. 1869A. Hume Brit. Antiq. 27 The unshod wooden wheels of timber carriages. |