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135. Answers nothing, save with her brown eyes, Smiles unaware , as if a guardian saint Smiled in her. Mrs. Browning , Aurora Leigh, v. unawares (un-a-warz'), adv . [ -es .]" 1. While the person is unaware; unexpectedly; without previous knowledge or preparation; suddenly. Take the great-grown traitor unawares . Shak ., 3 Hen. VI., iv. 8. 63. There may be stupidity in a man of genius if you take him unawares on the wrong subject. unbattered the amount of rock-excavation turn out to be very small and the amount of earth-excavation very large. unballast1 (un-bal'ast), v . t. [ un -2 + ballast . ] To free from ballast; discharge the ballast from. unballast2+ (un-bal'ast), a. [For unballasted . ] Unballasted. Add is on, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., ii. unballasted (un-bal'as-ted), a. Not furnished with ballast; not kept steady by ballast or by weight; unsteady: literally or figuratively: as, unballasted wits. unbanded (un-ban'ded), a. Having no band, especially in the sense of being stripped of a band, or lacking one where one is needed.