1. trans. To divest of a glove or gloves.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, IV. xliii. (1869), 196. Weel þou wost þe name of þe gloouen…. A fool þou were whan þou vngloouedest þee of hem.
1611. Florio, Disguantare, to vngloue.
1624. Massinger, Parl. Love, II. ii. See, I dare touch this hand, And without adoration unglove it.
a. 1625. Fletcher & Shirley, Lover’s Progress, II. i. Cla. ’Tis said you can tell fortunes to come. Lan. Yes Mistris and what’s past, Unglove your hand.
1823. Scott, Quentin D., xii. The King, ungloving his right hand, courteously handed the Countess Isabelle and her kinswoman to their apartment.
1861. Eng. Wom. Dom. Mag., III. 142. He laid the hand which he had ungloved upon his heart.
2. intr. To remove a glove or gloves. Also fig.
1797. Mrs. A. M. Bennett, Beggar Girl (1813), IV. 212. The earl, on every occasion a complete courtier, got out to unglove to Mrs. Woudbe.
1855. Lynch, Rivulet, LXVI. iii. The covered buds ungloving Seem with offered hand to greet.
Hence Ungloving vbl. sb.
1818. Keats, To Lady at Vauxhall, 4. Snared by the ungloving of thine hand.
1873. T. W. Higginson, Oldport Days, v. 129. The turning of her head, the ungloving of her hand.
