Emily Dickinson Lexicon

UN-A-VAIL-A-BLE, a.

Not available; not having sufficient power to produce the intended effect; not effectual; vain; useless. Hooker.

UN-A-VAIL-A-BLE-NESS, n.

Inefficacy; uselessness. Sandys.

UN-A-VAIL-A-BLY, adv.

Without availing or success.

UN-A-VAIL-ING, a.

Not having the effect desired; ineffectual; useless; vain; as, unavailing efforts; unavailing prayers.

UN-A-VAIL-ING-LY, adv.

Without effect.

UN-A-VENGE'A-BLE, a.

Not avengeable.

UN-A-VENG'ED, a.

1. Not avenged; not having obtained satisfaction; as, a person is unavenged.
2. Not punished; as, a crime is unavenged.

UN-AV'EN-UED, a.

Having no avenue. Pollok.

UN-A-VERT'ED, a.

Not averted; not turned away. Una voce. [L.] With one voice; unanimously.

UN-A-VOID'A-BLE, a.

1. That can not be made null or void. Blackstone.
2. Not avoidable; not to be shunned; inevitable; as, unavoidable evils.
3. Not to be missed in ratiocination. Locke.

UN-A-VOID'A-BLE-NESS, n.

The state of being unavoidable; inevitableness. Glanville.

UN-A-VOID'A-BLY, adv.

Inevitably; in a manner that prevents failure or escape.

UN-A-VOID'ED, a.

1. Not avoided or shunned.
2. Inevitable. [Not legitimate.] B. Jonson.

UN-A-VOW'ED, a.

Not avowed; not acknowledged; not owned; not confessed.

UN-A-WAK-ED, or UN-A-WAK-EN-ED, a.

1. Not awakened; not roused from sleep.
2. Not roused from spiritual slumber or stupidity. Scott.

UN-A-WAK-EN-ING, a.

Not awakening.

UN-A-WARE, a.

Without thought; inattentive. Swift.

UN-A-WARE, or UN-A-WARES, adv.

1. Suddenly; unexpectedly; without previous preparation. The evil came upon us unawares.
2. Without premeditated design. He killed the man unawares. At unawares, unexpectedly. He breaks at unawares upon our walks. Dryden.

UN-AW'ED, a.

Not awed; not restrained by fear; undaunted. Dryden.

UN-BACK'ED, a.

1. Not having been backed; as, an unbacked colt.
2. Not tamed; not taught to bear a rider. Shak.
3. Unsupported; left without aid. Daniel.

UN-BAF'FLED, a.

Not defeated; not confounded.

UN-BAK-ED, a.

Not baked.

UN-BAL'ANC-ED, a.

1. Not balanced; not poised; not in equipoise. Let earth unbalanc'd from her orbit fly. Pope.
2. Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account.
3. Not restrained by equal power; as, unbalanced parties. J. Adams.

UN-BAL'LAST, v.i.

To free from ballast; to discharge the ballast from. Mar. Dict.

UN-BAL'LAST-ED, pp.

1. Freed from ballast.
2. a. Not furnished with ballast; not kept steady by ballast or by weight; unsteady; as, unballasted wits. "Unballast vessel," for unballasted, in Addison, is an unauthorized phrase.