ppl. a. (UN-1 8 b.)
a. 1560. Phaër, Æneid, VIII. Y 3. To thee he trembling shooke, and left his bones begonne ungnawn.
1577. T. Hill, Gardeners Labyrinth, 33. The Egiptian and Greeke instructors of husbandrie reporte, that the seedes, after the bestowing, will remayne vngnawen or bitten, and free of harme by creeping things in the Garden, if the seedes shall bee committed to the earth when the Moone possesseth hic halfe light, or is quarter olde.
1648. Hexham, II. Ongeknaeght, Vngnawne.
1775. Ash, Ungnawn.
1879. J. S. Campion, On Foot in Spain, xxvii. 342. With my own eyes I beheld the skull of a man who had been dead nearly a thousand years, and perceived it was still ungnawn by mice or insects.
