Quarles, Emblems

9. IMG:content-1440.png:[blocks in formation] The disposal of the unlocated lands will hereafter be a valuable source of revenue, and an immediate one of credit. A. Hamilton, The Continentalist, No. 6. unlock (un-lok'), v. t. [ louken (pret. unlek , pp. unloken , unloke ), unlucan , unlock, block, un- , back, + lūcan , lock: see un-2 and lock1 .] 1. To unfasten, unfasten, as something which has been locked; open, as what has been shut, closed in, or protected by a lock: as, to unlock a door or a chest. I have seen her... unlock her closet. Shak., Macbeth, v. 1. 6. Go in; there are the keys, unlock his fetters; And arm ye nobly both. Fletcher, Double Marriage, ii. 3. 2. To open, in general; lay open. Thou 'st unlocked A tongue was vowed to silence. Ford, Lover's Melancholy, ii. 1. Saturday Morning, as soon as my Senses are unlocked , I get up. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 32. 3t. To spread out. Vnlouke hus legges abrod, other lygge at hus ese, Reste hym, and roste hym and his turne, Drynke drue and deepe and drawe hym thanne to bedde. [Rare.] IMG:content-1441.png:[merged small][ocr errors] 2. Not filled with liquor; not in liquor; not intoxicated; sober. [Rare.] I doubt me whether the very soberne e of such a one, like an unlicour'd Silenus, were not stark drunk. Milton , Apology for Smectymnuus.