ppl. a. Also 6 vncomde, vncomed, 7 vnkombt; Sc. and north. 7 unkamed, 9 unkaimed. [UN-1 8. Cf. UNKEMPT ppl. a. and Sw. okammad, Du. ongekamd.]

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  1.  Not combed; not dressed or smoothed with a comb: a. Of hair (or of persons in this respect).

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1561.  T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., IV. xii. § 17. 79. Accused men … with long hanging beard, with vncombed heare.

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1595.  Spenser, Daphnaida, 43. His carelesse locks, vncombed and vnshorne, Hong long adowne.

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1606.  Daniel, Queen’s Arcadia, 2509. Worthier people too, of subtler spirits, Then these vnfashion’d and vncomb’d rude swaines.

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1648.  Crashaw, Steps to Temple, Sospetto, ix. Their lockes are beds of uncomb’d snakes.

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1745.  Mrs. Montagu, Corr. (1906), I. 203. The doctor’s man, whose uncombed hair so resembled the mane of the horse he rode.

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1809–11.  Combe, Syntax, XXIII. 98. My uncomb’d wig,—my suit of black.

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1849–50.  Alison, Hist. Eur., XII. lxxix. § 43. 37. The rustic air and uncombed locks of these Scandinavian warriors.

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1883.  Sword & Trowel, July, 355. All these ragged, unwashed, uncombed children.

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  b.  Of wool.

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1642.  Bk. Rates Merchandizes, H 2 b. Irish wooll uncomb’d the hundred weight,… £2. 16s.

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1844.  H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, III. 894. Combed and uncombed wool of different varieties.

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  2.  fig. Rude, inelegant. (Cf. INCOMPT a.)

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1633.  P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., III. iii. How may I hope to quit your strong desires, In verse uncomb’d such wonders comprehending?

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