[UN-1 8 + FILE v.1] Not reduced or smoothed by filing; fig. unpolished, rude.

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., III. vii. 30. He was all armd in rugged steele vnfilde, As in the smoky forge it was compilde.

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1633.  Wither, Juvenilia, Sat. King, 342. Pardon me, and daigne a gracious eye On this my rude unfil’d Apologie.

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1641.  W. Cartwright, Royal Slave, Epil. The unfil’d Author … Fears yet he may miscarry.

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1774.  W. Mason, Heroic Postscript to Chambers, 12. Each glittering orb the sacred features bore of George…, Unfil’d, unsweated, all of sterling weight.

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