unparchedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpɑːtʃt/, U.S. /ˌənˈpɑrtʃt/ Not parched (in various senses).
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being slightly wet > [adjective]
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1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 49 Chaucer of purpose addethe that woorde ‘Greene’ to explane ‘vnseriall’, whiche signyfiethe vnsered, vnparched.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 23 Meal of crude and unparched Corn.
1721 R. B. Choice Emblems xlix. 196 There's no mortal Flesh, that will abide Unparched.
1796 ‘Juvenis’ Village Muse 74 A weeping willlow cheats the pleasur'd sight, Unparch'd by Summer, or the stripping year.
1847 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 446 These..are drawing from a wholesome and unparched subsoil the materials which are necessary to their continued growth.
1887 Good Words 28 470/2 He should go to bed sober and rise with his throat unparched.
1946 Life 18 Feb. 111/1 The peanuts were unparched.
2010 C. Deppe Resilient Gardener xii. 273/1 An occasional unparched kernel doesn't matter, since flour corns are soft anyway.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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