† unknavev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To cause (a person) no longer to be treated as a knave (knave n. 3a); to disguise the unscrupulous character of (a person).
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1746 Fool (1748) II. 9 By pursuing their Master's Instructions, [they] make it their Business to unknave him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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v.1746- to have one's eye in
- to have one's eye on
- to have one's eye on the ball
- to have one's eye on the prize
- to have one's eye one's merchant
- to have one's eye to the prize
- to have one's eye upon
- to have one's eye well in
- to have one's eyeball on
- to have one's eyes in
- to have one's eyes on the prize
- to have one's eyes well in
- to have one's eyeteeth
- to have one's eyeteeth about one
- to have one's face made of a fiddle
- to have one's fair share
- to have one's feet loose
- to have one's feet on the ground
- to have one's fere
- to have one's finger on the pulse
- to have one's fingers burnt
- to have one's fingers crossed
- to have one's fingers in the till
- to have one's fingers on the pulse
- to have one's fling