[UN-1 8. Cf. MDa. ongehuset, MLG. ungehuset, MHG. -hûset.]
1. Not provided with, not lodged in, a house; homeless.
1604. Shaks., Oth., I. ii. 26. I would not my vnhoused free condition Put into Circumscription, and Confine, For the Seas worth.
1623. Middleton, More Dissemblers, IV. i. Th’ unhous’d race of fortune-tellers.
1649. Ogilby, Virgil’s Georgics, III. 370. Lybian Shepherds … unhous’d Cattel through vast Desarts lead.
1709. Pope, Lett. (1735), I. 86. The faithful Dog,… Unfed, unhous’d, neglected, [lay] on the Clay.
1743. Francis, trans. Hor., Odes, IV. xiv. 44. Whom unhoused Scythians fear, unconquer’d Spain obeys.
1830. Croly, Geo. IV., 283. Unhoused beggary, and the hideousness of civil bloodshed, combined and shaped themselves into a colossal power.
1860. Longf., Wayside Inn, K. Olaf, XVII. v. Every warlike Dane … Left … Unhoused the cattle.
1867. Lewes, Hist. Philos. (ed. 3), II. 210. Their tottering architecture would have sheltered none whom Spinoza’s visionary fabric left unhoused.
2. Not occupied by houses.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, IV. (Arb.), 96. Heere ye sit embayed with Moors, with Syrtis vnhowsed [L. inhospita Syrtis].
1611. Cotgr., Place, a plaine and vnhoused ground.
