unbought (ought as at)

[Pref. un- (1), and Eng. bought.] 1. Not bought; given freely; obtained without money. "And unbought dainties of the poor." Dryden: Horace , Epod. 2. 2. Not bought over; not gained over by bribes. 'Unbribed, unbought , our swords we draw." Scott: War Song of the Edinburgh Light Dragoons . *3. Not bought; which have not found a purchaser; unsold. "The merchant will leave our native commodities un bought upon the hands of the farmer."-Locke. un-bound', pret . of v. & a. [UNBIND.] A. As pret. of verb : (See the verb.) B. As adjective: 4259 *un-bound-en, *un-bound-un, a. [Pref. un(1), and Eng. bounden.] Unbound, freed, set loose. "But now we ben unboundun fro the lawe of deeth."Wycliffe: Romans vii. 6. *un-boun-tě-ous, a . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. bounteous .] Not bounteous; not liberal; grudging. "Nay, such an unbounteous giver we should make him, as in the Fables Jupiter was to Ixion."- Milton : Tetrachord on. *un-bow, v. t . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. bow , v.] To unbend. "Looking back would unbow his resolution." -Fuller: Holy War, p. 118. *un-bow-a-ble, a . [Pref. un- (1), and English bowable.] Incapable of being bent or inclined. un-bowed, a . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. bowed .] 1. Not bent, arched, or bowed. "And pa eth by with stiff unbowed knee, Disdaining duty that to us belongs." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . II ., iii. 1. 2. Not subjugated or subdued; unconquered, uncrushed. "He stood unbowed beneath the ills upon him piled." Byron: Childe Harold, iii. 39. un-bow-el, *vn-bow-ell, v . t . [Pref. un- (2), and English bowel .] To deprive of the bowels; to eviscerate, to disembowel; hence, fig., to expose the inner or most secret parts. "It shall not bee ami e in this chapter to unbowell the state of the question, touching the world's decay." -Hake will: Apologie , bk. i., ch. iii. [Pref. un- (2), and Eng. box .] Το To ŭn-box, v . t . take out of a box. *un-boy, v. t. [Pref. un- (2), and Eng. boy .] free from boyish thoughts or habits; to raise above boyhood. "He [Charles I.] began to say, it was time to unboy the Prince [Charles II.] by putting him into some action and acquaintance with busine apart from himself."Clarendon: Hist. of Great Rebellion , ii. 559. IMG:content-1681.png:[blocks in formation] brace.] A. Transitive : 1. To remove the braces of; to free from tension; to loosen, to relax. "The zone unbraced , her bosom she displayed." Pope: Homer's Iliad , xxii., 112. 2. To relax. "Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind." Add is on: Spectator , No. 249. B. In trans.: To grow flaccid; to relax; to hang loose. ŭn-brāçed', a. [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. braced .] 1. Loosened, ungirt, unbuttoned. "With his doublet all unbraced." Shakesp.: Hamlet, ii. 1. *2. Freed from constraint; unconstrained. "Unbraced with him all light sports they shared." Ben Jonson: Poetaster, v. 1. un-braid, v . t . [Pref. un- (2), and Eng. braid, verb.] To separate the strands of; to unweave, to 2. Not bound; wanting binding or a cover, as a book. "A bookseller who had volumes that lay unbound."_ Locke. 3. Not under moral bonds; not bound by obliga. tion or covenant; free. *un-bound-a-bly, adv . [Eng. unbound; -ably .] Without bounds or limits; infinitely. un-bound-ěd, adj. [Prefix un- (1), and English bounded.] 1. Not bounded; without limits; limitle ; having no bound or limit. "Meantime, light shadowing all, a sober calm Fleeces unbounded ether.' Thomson: Autumn, 957. 2. Unrestrained; not subject to any check or control. "Several years of unbounded freedom." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xix. For the difference between unbounded and boundle , see BOUNDLESS. un-bound-ěd lý, adv. [Eng. unbounded; -ly.] In an unbounded manner or degree; without bounds or limits; infinitely. "The friend unboundedly generous, but still esteemed." -Byron: Childe Harold, iv. (Note 27.)