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unˈstanched, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. a. Not satisfied; unsated.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. vi. (1868) 54 Rycchesse may nat restreyne auarice vnstaunched. 1591Lyly Endym. ii. ii, I will..teare the flesh with my teeth, so mortall is my hate, and so eger my unstaunched stomacke. 1596Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. vi. 83 Stifle the Villaine, whose vnstanched thirst Yorke, and yong Rutland could not satisfie. 1613Heywood Silver Age iii. i, His maw Vnstaunch't, He still the thicke Nemean groues doth stray.
b. Unrestrained; not stopped.
1621N. Riding Rec. (1894) 34 Being unstaunchte they [sc. deer] raunge over all the adjacent fieldes. 1826Scott Woodst. xiv, I conjure thee by the unstanch'd wound. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 263 Fresh and unstaunched woes.
2. Not made staunch or water-tight.
1607J. Carpenter Plaine Mans Plough 220 Slugging on the waves of this ocean with an unstancht ship. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 126 The elements..came pouring from unstanched roofs.
fig.1610Shakes. Temp. i. i. 51 Though the Ship were..as leaky as an vnstanched wench. |