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n. A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who puns, or is skilled in, or given to, punning; a quibbler; a low wit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Soused. See Souse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sun + stead a place. ] Solstice. [ Obs. ] “The summer sunsted.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Aventurine feldspar. See under Aventurine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally; coup de soleil. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Instable. ] Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow. -- Un*sta"ble*ness, n. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Unstable equilibrium. See Stable equilibrium, under Stable. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + stack. ] To remove, or take away, from a stack; to remove, as something constituting a stack. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. un- + starch. ] To free from starch; to make limp or pliable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + state. ] To deprive of state or dignity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

High-battled Caesar will unstate his happiness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + steel. ] To disarm; to soften. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + step. ] (Naut.) To remove, as a mast, from its step. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + stick. ] To release, as one thing stuck to another. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. unstille. See Un- not, and Still, a. ] Not still; restless. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + sting. ] To disarm of a sting; to remove the sting of. [ R. ] “Elegant dissertations on virtue and vice . . . will not unsting calamity.” J. M. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + stitch. ] To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + stock. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To deprive of a stock; to remove the stock from; to loose from that which fixes, or holds fast. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remove from the stocks, as a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. [ Pref. un- not + stocking. ] Destitute of stockings. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ 1st pref. un- + stocking. ] Deprived of stockings. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + stop. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To take the stopple or stopper from; as, to unstop a bottle or a cask. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To free from any obstruction; to open. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + strain. ] To relieve from a strain; to relax. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. un- not + strain. ] 1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Geol.) Not stratified; -- applied to massive rocks, as granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the glacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of strength; weakness; feebleness. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Nat. Hist.) Nonstriated; unstriped. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + string. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To loosen the string or strings of; as, to unstring a harp or a bow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To relax the tension of; to loosen. “His garland they unstring.” Dryden. Used also figuratively; as, his nerves were unstrung by fear. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not striped. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Nat. Hist.) Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not studied; not acquired by study; unlabored; natural. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not skilled; unversed; -- followed by in. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not spent in study. [ Obs. ] “To cloak the defects of their unstudied years.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]