ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not hunted in; not searched by hunting.
1572. Bossewell, Armorie, II. 94. A great Parke … that had remained vnhunted, duringe the time of foure mens ages.
1811. Miss L. M. Hawkins, C’tess & Gertr., 59. No part of England, but the extreme northern counties, was ‘unhunted’ in this search.
1883. R. Bridges, Prometh., 1078. Skirting wide The unhunted forest.
1899. F. V. Kirby, Sport Africa, xi. 118. In comparatively unknown and unhunted districts.
2. Not hunted or chased.
1648. Hexham, II. Ongejacght, Vnhunted, or Vnchased.
1809. Campbell, Gert. Wyom., I. iii. The wild-deer arched his neck from glades, and then Unhunted sought his woods.
a. 1822. Shelley, Fragm., ‘When soft Winds,’ 4. Bold as an unhunted fawn.
