ppl. a. (UN-1 8. Cf. ON. úmarkaðr; also ON. úmerktr (MSw. omärkter, Sw. omärkt, older Da. umærket.)]

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  1.  Having received no mark or impress; left without a mark.

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14[?].  Sir Beues (M.), 160/3111. None went vnmarked away, That Beuys hyt wyth Morglay.

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1480.  Cely Papers (Camden), 53. [1093] felles qwherof be iiije xlvj Cottysowlde onmarkyd and the rembnant … be markyd wt an O.

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a. 1578.  Lindesay, Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), II. 320. Nane wald resawe thame [sc. pennies] nathir marcat nor onmarcat.

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1651.  Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 199. You may know such a man’s Flock of Sheep by the mark; when yet perhaps some may be unmarkt.

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1705.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4104/4. Stoln…, 2 Sweet-meat Spoons, forked, unmarked.

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c. 1790.  Imison, Sch. Arts, II. 762. That the magnet … may rest with its marked end on the unmarked end of A.

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1872.  M. S. de Vere, Americanisms, 211. The name of Maverick, used in Texas to designate an unmarked yearling.

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  Comb.  1895.  Daily News, 25 March, 8/6. The attempt to unite the unmarked iron firms has not been abandoned.

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  b.  Not marked off or out, not distinguished or characterized (by something).

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1815.  Monthly Rev., LXXVI. 455. Virgil’s characters are mostly cold, unmarked, and not attaching.

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1824.  Scott, St. Ronan’s, xi. Men … whose spirit and courage lie hidden … under an unmarked or a plain exterior.

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1883.  Farrar, Early Chr., II. 482. Compositions so short … and so unmarked by special features.

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  2.  Unnoticed, unobserved.

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1533.  More, Debell. Salem, Wks. 1026/2. Here was himselfe faine … to begyle the reader vppon the readyng of the place, and make hym passe ouer his faute for the while vnmarked.

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1583.  Babington, Commandm. (1590), 251. Sathan breedeth by his vnmarked creeping into our affections a misliking of such a man or woman.

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1628.  Sir S. D’Ewes, Jrnl. (1783), 42. Hee passed quietlie unmarked … out of the saied hall.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., X. 441. He through the midst unmarkt … past.

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1744.  Akenside, Pleas. Imag., II. 184. Oft the hours From morn to eve have stol’n unmark’d away.

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1821.  Scott, Kenilw., xiii. Like one who has suddenly recognized some mighty hero … in the person of an unknown and unmarked stranger.

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1850.  Tennyson, In Mem., xcviii. Let her great Danube rolling fair Enwind her isles, unmark’d of me.

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