Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.]

1. Foul; filthy; dirty. Shak.
2. 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.

1. Foulness; dirtiness; filthiness. Be not troublesome to thyself or to others by uncleanness. Taylor.
2. Want of ritual or ceremonial purity. Lev. xv.
3. Moral impurity; defilement by sin; sinfulness. I will save you from all your uncleanness. Ezek. xxxvi.
4. 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.]

1. To open; to break the seal of; as, to unclose a letter. Pope.
2. To disclose; to lay open.

UN-CLOS'ED, pp.

1. Opened.
2. adj. Not separated by inclosures; open. Clarendon.
3. Not finished; not concluded. Madison.
4. 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.

1. Stripped of clothing or covering. Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon. 2 Cor. v.
2. adj. Not clothed; wanting clothes.

UN-CLOTH'ED-LY, adv.

Without clothing. Bacon.

UN-CLOTH'ING, ppr.

1. Stripping of clothing.
2. [n.] Act of taking off clothes.