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unˈtracked, (ppl.) a.
Also 6–7 untract.
[un-1 8 and 9. The spelling untract is due to tract n.3 8–11 and v.2 4–5. Cf. untracted.]
1. Through which no way has been found or made; not furnished with a track or path.
α1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 309 The rest..hauing on horsebacke all alone by vncouth and vntract waies, trauailed three dayes without meat. 1684Otway Atheist iii. 32 Drawn by wing'd Horses through the untract Air. 1706Rowe Ulysses iii. 40 So the Eagle..beholds his hardy youthful Offspring Forsake the Nest, to try his tender Pinions, In the wide untract Air.
β1612Bp. Hall Contempl. iv. 353 That they might not erre in that sandy and vntracked wildernesse. 1659T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 172 The untrack'd path to Bliss. 1750Carte Hist. Eng. II. 391 After a long day's march through untracked ways. 1812A. Plumtre Lichtenstein's S. Africa I. 350 The road was untracked and fatiguing. 1830New Monthly Mag. Hist. Reg., Jan. 8/1 Regions yet untracked by any Europeans. 1894Outing XXIII. 347/2 A long, dark object lying..on the untracked snow beneath the trees.
2. Not tracked or traced; not followed up.
1680Otway Orphan iii. 504 At midnight thus the us'rer steals untract [1735 untrack'd] To make a visit to his hoarded gold. 1872Ruskin Fors Clav. xiv. 12 Just persons..untracked by the hounds of war. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right (1899) 146/2 A reflection of the deed still untracked and unavenged. |