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unˈstopped, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. Sw. ostoppad in sense 2.]
1. Not stopped up or closed.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. x. (Bodl. MS.), Þe weies of þe brayne be vnstopped of þat humoure. c1440Jacob's Well 216 Ȝif ȝoure pyt in his entrees be stylle opyn & vnstoppyd. 1513Sir E. Howard in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. I. 149 He hath bored an C agore hoolis in her and left unstopte, that the water cam in. 1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 58 If also carelesnesse haue left a rift, or chincke vnstopped in thine aged wall. a1608Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 419 The hole which was not greater then the thickness of a brick unstopped. 1683Boyle in Phil. Trans. XVII. 636, I have kept the Bottle of prepar'd Water..in the same unstopt Vessel. 1758Ann. Reg., Chron. 96/2 Suffocated..by the steam of 40 buts of unstopped beer. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 719 Gilding the unstopped parts with the proper amalgam. 1887Field 24 Dec. 952/2 Our fox ran within short distance of main earths in a wholly unstopped country.
†2. Unstuffed. Obs.—1
1434E.E. Wills (1882) 102, iij quisshonus of the same colour vn-stopped.
3. Not stopped or hindered.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. iii. (1626) 60 So haue I seene an unstopt torrent glide With quiet waters. Ibid. xv. 319 He might, vnstopt, haue entred without feare: But I withstood. 1796Ann. Reg. 168 Let the frequent wain, unstopp'd by rains, Clear the dry hayfield of its dusky piles! 1803Edwin I. x. 152 That Edwin is no more, the voice of rumour, unstopped by opposition, has long declared. 1816J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 3) 20 We passed on with our trunks unopened and unstopped.
4. Phonetics. (See stopped ppl. a. 7.)
1874H. Sweet in Trans. Philol. Soc. 471 Relaxation: a) stopped consonants to unstopped:..b) unstopped to diphthongal vowel. 1877― Handbk. Phonetics 78, 79.
5. spec. Of verse-lines: Not ending with a stop.
1874Furnivall in Trans. New Shaks. Soc. I. 73 Shakspere's often use of the unstopt line. |