unblown

[Pref. un- (1), and Eng. blown.] 1. Not sounded by means of wind, as a trumpet. "The lances unlifted, the trumpets unblown." Byron: Destruction of Sennacherib. 2. Not blo omed, as a bud or flower; not having the bud expanded. "Boys are, at best, but pretty buds unblown." Cowper: Tirocinium, 446. *3. Not inflated or inflamed with wind. "A fire unblown [shall] devour his race." Sandys: Job xv. 30. *4. Not extinguished. (Followed by out.) "Prodigious lamps by night unwet, And unblown out." More: Life of the Soul, ii. 118. *5. Not fully grown; not grown to perfection. "My means are equal, My youth as much unblown." Beaum. & Flet.: Lover's Pilgrimage , iii. 2. un blunt-ěd, adj . [Pref. un- (1), and English blunted .] Not blunted; not made obtuse or dull. "A sword, whose weight without a blow might slay, Able, unblunted , to cut hosts away." Cowley: Davideis , iii. un-blush-ing, a . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. blush ing .] Not blushing; destitute of shame; shamele , barefaced, impudent. "The most dishonest and unblushing timeservers that the world has ever seen."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xiii. un-blush-ing-ly, adv . [Eng. unblushing; -ly.] In an unblushing manner; without any manifestation of shame; barefacedly, impudently. "They end with bankruptcy as naturally, as unreluctantly, and as unblushingly as if it had been the honorable object of their mercantile pursuit." Knox : E ay 8. *un-boast-fûl, a . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. boast ful .] Not boastful; free from boasting or a umption; una uming, modest. "Oft in humble station dwells Unboastful worth, above fastidious pomp." Thomson: Summer , 684. *un-boast'-fül-ly, adv . [Eng. unboastful ; -ly .] "Ebrew, unbolde, ethir coward is."-Note in Wycliffe's Bible, Judges ix. 4.