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  1.  Not smeared or stained with blood.

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1593.  Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., III. ii. 193. Who finds the Partridge in the Puttocks Nest, But may imagine how the Bird was dead, Although the Kyte soare with vnbloudied Beake?

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1791.  Huddesford, Salmag., Monody Death of Dick, 138. Within the tender velvet of his paw Tho’ yet unbloodied lurks each virgin claw.

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1825.  Scott, Betrothed, xv. The spirit of the murdered person,… if favourable,… appears with a smiling aspect, and crosses them with her unbloodied hand.

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1881.  Swinburne, Mary Stuart, I. i. 29. I am sick with shame to hear men’s jangling tongues Outnoise their swords unbloodied.

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  † 2.  = UNBLOODY a. 2 b. Obs.–1

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1644.  Sir E. Dering, Prop. Sacr., 39. Your Sacrifice is ἀναίμακτος, unbloudyed.

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