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[Pref. un- (1), and Eng. easy.] 1. Feeling some degree of pain, mental or physical; ill at ease; restle , disturbed, anxious. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. II., iii. 1. 2. Not easy or elegant in manner; constrained; ill at ease; not graceful; awkward. "In conversation, a solicitous watchfulne about one's behavior, instead of being mended, will be constrained, uneasy, and ungraceful."-Locke. 3. Causing pain, trouble, discomfort, or want of ease, physical or mental; irksome, disagreeable. "Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. II . , iii. 1. *4. Peevish; difficult to please. "A sour untractable nature makes him uneasy to those who approach him."- Add is on : Spectator . *5. Difficult; not easy to be done or accomplished. "This swift busine I must uneasy make" Shakesp.: Tempest , i. 2. un-eat-a-ble, a . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. eatable.] Not eatable; not fit to be eaten. "An almost uneatable 14, 1888. compound."- Field, Jan. IMG:content-0097.png:[blocks in formation] "Therefore I will out swear him and all his followers, that this is all that's left uneaten of my sword."-Beaum. & Flet.: King and No King , iii. *un-eath', *un-ethe, adv . & a. [A. S. uneddhe= with difficulty, from uneádhe =difficult: un- = not, and eádh, eádhe easy; cogn. with O. S. odhi = easy; O. H. Ger. odi desert, empty, easy; Ger. öde =deserted; Goth. auths , authis desert, waste; Icel. audhr =empty; Lat. otium =ease.] A. As adverb : 1. With difficulty; not easily; scarcely. "Uneath may she endure the filthy struts." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . II . , ii. 4. 2. Almost. "Seem'd uneath to shake the stedfast ground." Spenser. F. Q., I. xii. 4. B. As adj.: Not easy; difficult, hard. "Uneath it is to tell."-Southey. *un-ebb-ing, a . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. ebbing .] Not ebbing, receding, or falling back. *un-e-bri-ate, adj . [Pref. un- (1), and English ebriate.] 1. Not intoxicated. 4285 ' un-ědge', v . t . [Pref. un- (2), and Eng. edge .] To deprive of the edge; to blunt. ( Lit. & fig .) "Pale fear unedge their weapons' sharpest points." Ford: Perkin Warbeck, iv. 5. Not eatable. *un-ed-1-ble, a. [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. edible.] un-ed-1-fied, *un-ed-1-fyed, a. [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. edified.] Not edified. "'Tis true, there be a sort of moody, hot-brain'd, and always unedifyed consciences." - Milton : Eikon ok las tes , § 28. un-ed-1-fy-ing, a. [Pref. un- (1), and English edifying.] Not edifying; not improving to the mind. "Unmeaning or unedifying forms and ceremonies." Seeker: Sermons; On Confirmation. *un-ed-i-fy-ing-lý, adverb . [Eng. unedifying; -ly.] Not in an edifying manner. *un-ed-u-cate, a. [Pref. un- (1), and English educate (d).] Uneducated, ignorant. "O harsh, uneducate , illiterate peasant." Solyman and Perseda (1599). un-ed-u-cat-ěd, a . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. educated.] Not educated; illiterate, ignorant. "By an exertion of the same almighty power light up the lamp of knowledge in the minds of uneducated men.' -Horsley: Sermons, vol. i, ser. 14. ŭn-ef-fāçed, adj. [Pref. un- (1), and English effaced.] Not effaced; not defaced or erased. "If we have received a good impre ion, let us bear it away uneffaced to our graves." -Knox : Sermons, vol. vi., ser. 2.