Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: UN-CLEAN'A-BLE – UN-CLOTH'ING
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UN-CLEAN'A-BLE, a.
That can not be cleansed. Swift.
UN-CLEAN'LI-NESS, n. [unclen'liness.]
Want of cleanliness; filthiness. Clarendon.
UN-CLEAN-LY, a. [unclen'ly.]
- Foul; filthy; dirty. Shak.
- Indecent; unchaste; obscene. It is a pity that these harmonious writers have indulged any thing uncleanly or impure to defile their paper. Watts.
UN-CLEAN'NESS, n.
- Foulness; dirtiness; filthiness. Be not troublesome to thyself or to others by uncleanness. Taylor.
- Want of ritual or ceremonial purity. Lev. xv.
- Moral impurity; defilement by sin; sinfulness. I will save you from all your uncleanness. Ezek. xxxvi.
- Lewdness; incontinence. Col. iii. 2 Pet. ii.
UN-CLEANS-ED, a. [unclenz'ed.]
Not cleansed; not purified. Bacon.
UN-CLEAV'A-BLE, a.
That can not be cleaved, split or divided.
UN-CLEW', v.t.
To undo; to unwind, unfold or untie.
UN-CLEW'ED, pp.
Undone; unwound, or untied.
UN-CLINCH', v.t.
To open the closed hand; as, to unclinch the fist. Garth.
UN-CLINCH'ED, pp.
Opened; unclosed.
UN-CLIP'PED, a.
Not clipped; not cut; not diminished or shortened by clipping; as, unclipped money; unclipped hair.
UN-CLOG', v.t.
To disincumber of difficulties and obstructions; to free from incumbrances, or any thing that retards motion.
UN-CLOG'GED, pp. [or adj.]
Disincumbered; set free from obstructions.
UN-CLOG'GING, ppr.
Disincumbering.
UN-CLOIS'TER, v.t.
To release from a cloister or from confinement; to set at liberty. Norris.
UN-CLOIS'TER-ED, pp.
Released from a cloister or from confinement.
UN-CLOIS'TER-ING, ppr.
Releasing from confinement.
UN-CLOK'ED, a.
Not covered or disguised.
UN-CLOSE', v.t. [s as z.]
- To open; to break the seal of; as, to unclose a letter. Pope.
- To disclose; to lay open.
UN-CLOS'ED, pp.
- Opened.
- adj. Not separated by inclosures; open. Clarendon.
- Not finished; not concluded. Madison.
- Not closed; not sealed.
UN-CLOS'ING, ppr.
Opening; breaking the seal of.
UN-CLOTHE', v.t.
To strip of clothes; to make naked; to divest. To have a distinct knowledge of things, we must unclothe them. Watts.
UN-CLOTH'ED, pp.
- Stripped of clothing or covering. Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon. 2 Cor. v.
- adj. Not clothed; wanting clothes.
UN-CLOTH'ED-LY, adv.
Without clothing. Bacon.
UN-CLOTH'ING, ppr.
- Stripping of clothing.
- [n.] Act of taking off clothes.