v. Obs. [UN-2 3 + HILL v.1]
1. = UNHELE v. 1.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 69. Synnes on dede and on speche unhileð hem seluen.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 1912. If he saȝ hise breðere mis-faren, His fader he it gan vn-hillen & baren.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 26585. Noght wit wordes fayr and slight Agh þou for to plane þi plight, Þat mai þi derf dedis dill, Bot openli þou þam vnhill.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1628. Goddes gost is þe geuen…, & þou vnhyles vch hidde þat heuen kyng myntes.
1388. Wyclif, Ecclus. xlvii. 16. He was fillid with wisdom, and his soule vnhilide the erthe.
1482. Caxton, Trevisa’s Higden, 369. Here he is hyd, but he is vnhyled, for name dureth euermore.
2. = UNHELE v. 2. Also refl.
a. 1250. Ancr. R., 58 (Trin. MS.). [If anyone] unhulede þe put & beast fel þerin.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter xxviii. 9. Vn-hil thickenesses sal he swa.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter cxviii. 18. Vnhil myn eghen & i sall bihalde wondirthyngis of þi laghe.
a. 1375. Joseph Arim., 515. Þer weoren hedes vn-huled, helmes vphaunset.
1388. Wyclif, 2 Sam. vi. 20. The kyng of Israel … vnhilynge hym silf bifor the handmaidis.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 364/2. Oncuryn, or on-hyllyn, detego, discooperio.
1604. [see UNHELE v. 2.]
1611. Cotgr.,… Descouvrir, to vncouer, vnhill, denude.
b. In pa. pple. = UNHELE v. 2 b.
13[?]. Gosp. Nicod., 169. His heued vnhyld, on knese he kneled.
c. 1400. Gamelyn, 87. His howses were vnhiled; and ful yuel dight.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, XIV. iii. 644. A passynge old man…; his sholders were naked & vnhylled.
3. To remove (a covering).
1388. Wyclif, Ruth iii. 4. Thou schalt … vnhile the cloth, with which he is hiled.
