unhelev.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. transitive. To uncover (something) so as to display or make visible; hence figurative, to discover, reveal, make patent or known. Also reflexive.
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society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)]
unwryc825
unhelec1000
to draw forthc1175
unhillc1200
to bring forth?c1225
unsteekc1250
let witc1275
uncovera1300
wraya1300
knowc1300
barea1325
shrivec1374
unwrapc1374
again-covera1382
nakena1382
outc1390
tellc1390
disclosea1393
cough1393
unhidea1400
unclosec1400
unhaspc1400
bewrayc1405
reveal1409
accusea1413
reveil1424
unlocka1425
unrekec1425
disclude?1440
uncurec1440
utter1444
detect1447
break1463
expose1483
divinec1500
revelate1514
to bring (also put) to light1526
decipher1529
rake1547
rip1549
unshadow1550
to lay to sight1563
uppen1565
unlace1567
unvisor?1571
resign1572
uncloak1574
disshroud1577
spill1577
reap1578
unrip1579
scour1585
unharboura1586
unmask1586
uncase1587
descrya1591
unclasp?1592
unrive1592
discover1594
unburden1594
untomb1594
unhusk1596
dismask1598
to open upc1600
untruss1600
divulge1602
unshale1606
unbrace1607
unveil1609
rave1610
disveil1611
unface1611
unsecret1612
unvizard1620
to open up1624
uncurtain1628
unscreen1628
unbare1630
disenvelop1632
unclothe1632
to lay forth1633
unshroud1633
unmuffle1637
midwife1638
dissecret1640
unseal1640
unmantle1643
to fetch out1644
undisguise1655
disvelop1658
decorticate1660
clash1667
exert1692
disinter1711
to up with1715
unbundlea1739
develop1741
disembosom1745
to open out1814
to let out1833
unsack1846
uncrown1849
to bring (out) in (also into) the open1861
unfrock1866
disbosom1868
to blow the lid off1928
flush1950
surface1955
to take or pull the wraps off1964
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > uncover and expose
unwryc825
bareOE
unhelec1000
uncoverc1390
disclosea1393
to lay outa1400
unhidea1400
declose14..
unbare1530
discover1563
imbear1657
fleece1667
unfence1715
to lay bare1807
to open out1832
strip1839
expose1851
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 2 Nis nan þing oferheled, þe ne beo unheled.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 77 Seinte poul..minegeð us..þat we..cumen festliche to ure saule leche and unhelen him ure saule wundes.
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 66 Also goddede þet wule adeaden forworpeð hire rinde. ðet is. unheleð hire.
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 2689 (Kölbing) Þe king..ladde him fram & gan his priuete vnhele, & bad, þat he it schuld hele.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 161 Here he is i-hud, but he is unheled.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 249/1 Netheles the body of saynt laurence was discouerd and un~heled by ygnorance.
1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Hviij Thou shall not vnhele ye secretes of thy brothers wyffe.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa7v Then suddeinly both would themselues vnhele.
2. † b. In past participle. Of the head: Uncovered. Obsolete.
a. To uncover so as to leave open or exposed; to strip of covering or (frequently) roofing material.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare
strip?c1225
nakena1250
unhelea1250
unhilla1250
tirvec1386
barec1440
plumec1450
strope1527
unstrip1596
bald1602
unvest1609
denudate1634
flay1636
denude1658
nudate1721
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 25 Auh þe dom is ful strong up on ham þet unhelieð þene put.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 367 Þere was a welle in þat lond..alle wey i-heled; and ȝif it were vnheled, þe welle wexe and adrenche al þe lond.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xx. 301 Yf hus hous be vnheled and reyne on hus bedde.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. ii. 56 Yet wol this werk the roote..Vnhele or kerue, and cold hit after quelle.
1551 Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1905) i. 28 Robarde foster hathe vnhellyde partte off thomas cupers housse.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) ii. l. 1175 in Shorter Poems (1967) 76 I knelyt law and onheldit [1579 Edinb. vnheildit] my heid.
1604 J. Marston & J. Webster Malcontent (new ed.) ii. iii. sig. D2v Would I were forcde To burne my fathers Tombe, vnheale [1604 ed. 1 vnhill] his bones..rather than this.
1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 69 Thear should the Swallowe see..the graue vnheale his face, To let the liuing from his bowels creepe.
1730 R. Budgen Passage of Hurricane 9 Mr John Collier had..the ridging of the house unheeled.
1744 Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 852 It presently unhealed the House we were in.
1848– in Eng. Dial. Dict. at Unheal (Wilts, Dorset, Som., Devon).
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xlvii. 126 They were busily ‘unhaling’ the rick, that is, stripping off the thatch.
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1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 232 He goth to cold beddynge, And his heued vn-heled vn-esiliche i-wrye.
a1400–50 Alexander 3450 Hire hede vn-helid was on hiȝe & hild all in trissis.
Derivatives
unˈheler n.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > that which
unhelerc1430
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xvii. 144 This hand is an vnmakere of howses, and an vnhelere and brekere of cofres.
unˈheling n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun]
discoveringa1375
stripping1398
unheling1398
uncovering1495
discovery1610
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > depriving of roof
unheling1640
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. xxvii In acutis [febribus] vnheling and puttinge oute of bare armes is tokene of deeþ.
1640 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1902) 25 8 His mother being then in distress, by reason of the unhealing of her house by the late severe time.
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