n. Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.)
n. Any plant of the genus
. Kansas; a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + face. ] To remove the face or cover from; to unmask; to expose. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Infallible. [ Obs. ] “This unfailable word of truth.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not failing; not liable to fail; inexhaustible; certain; sure. Dryden. --
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + fair. ] To deprive of fairness or beauty. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ AS. unfæger unlovely. See Un- not, and Fair, a. ] Not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal. [ 1913 Webster ]
You come, like an unfair merchant, to charge me with being in your debt. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers:
Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
His honor rooted in dishonor stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a.
a. Infallible. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + fasten. ] To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
a. Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. --
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + feather. ] To deprive of feathers; to strip. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Wanting regular features; deformed. “Visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Un- not + feat, a. ] Not feat; not dexterous; unskillful; clumsy. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
To each his sufferings: all are men,
Condemned alike to groan;
The tender for another's pain,
Th' unfeeling for his own. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. Not feigned; not counterfeit; not hypocritical; real; sincere; genuine;
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + fellow. ] To prevent from being a fellow or companion; to separate from one's fellows; to dissever. [ 1913 Webster ]
Death quite unfellows us. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. un- + fellowed. ] Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + fence. ] To strip of a fence; to remove a fence from. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not fertile; infertile; barren. --
a. Unfit for a feast; hence, jaded; worn. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + fetter. ] To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate;
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + feudalize. ] To free from feudal customs or character; to make not feudal. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + file. ] To remove from a file or record. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. un- not + filed, p. p. of file to defile. ] Not defiled; pure. [ Obs. ] Surrey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Unsuitable to a son or a daughter; undutiful; not becoming a child. --
a. Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch;
a. Infirm. [ R. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Infirmness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + fit. ] To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify;
a. [ Pref. un- + fit. ] Not fit; unsuitable. --
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + fix. ]
The mountain stands; nor can the rising sun
Unfix her frosts. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not fledged; not feathered; hence, not fully developed; immature. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + flesh. ] To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton. “Unfleshed humanity.” Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not pertaining to the flesh; spiritual. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Inflexible. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not flinching or shrinking; unyielding. --
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + flower. ] To strip of flowers. [ R. ] G. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ AS. unfealdan. See 1st Un-, and Fold, v. t. ]
Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]
Unfold the passion of my love. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To open; to expand; to become disclosed or developed. [ 1913 Webster ]
The wind blows cold
While the morning doth unfold. J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, unfolds. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded. [ 1913 Webster ]
The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. C. Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + fool. ] To restore from folly, or from being a fool. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + foresee. ] To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]