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1. Not injured by bruising or crushing.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., III. 353. So sawe hit that the bark vnbresed be.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 83. A floure, whan it is fresshe,… vnbrused & hole, is moche delectable & swete.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Oct., 42. Doubted Knights, whose … helmes vnbruzed wexen dayly browne.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., Prol. 14. On Dardan Plaines The fresh and yet vnbruised Greekes do pitch Their braue Pauillions.
a. 1652. Brome, City Wit, V. i. Unbruised bones, and smooth foreheads to face both.
1801. Surr, Splendid Misery, I. 172. Foul imps of ignominy will squat their loathsome forms on my unbruised bones.
1816. Scott, Antiq., viii. The callant had come off wi’ unbrizzed banes.
1900. F. T. Bullen, Men Merch. Service, xxxii. One man … beat me until there was not a square inch of my small body unbruised.
fig. 1455. Rolls of Parlt., V. 280/2. Alwey kepyng oure trouthe to his said Highnesse unspotted and unbrused.
2. Not crushed small; unpounded.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 327. It should seeme that none of his meate should fall thereinto vnbruised.
1802. Paley, Nat. Theol., ix. § 6. The rough action of the unbruised spiculæ.
1844. H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 191. The horses fed on unbruised raw and on boiled grain, gave results … very nearly alike.
