[UN-1 8 b.]
1. a. Not fired or let off.
1544. Exped. Scotl., in Fragm. Sc. Hist. (1798), 14. The Scottes fledde from theyr ordinaunces, leuyng them vnshot.
1686. Waller, Night Piece, 32. He … With Cupid’s pointed Arrows plays; They, with a touch, they are so keen, Wound us unshot, and She unseen.
1899. J. Milne, Romance of Pro-Consul, vi. 52. For his own gun, he snatched an unshot one which the man was struggling to release from its cover.
b. Not struck by a shot; not shot at.
[1755. Johnson.]
1897. Outing, XXIX. 368/1. The deer left suddenly and unshot. Ibid. We found them easily,… and as before they whirled away unshot at to the cover.
2. Of grain: Not come into ear; not sprouted.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm., xxv. 527. Fields … waving with the yet unshot corn.
1893. Times, 8 June, 12/4. Barley and oats had been lying in the soil for a long time unshot.
3. Not shot out or deposited.
1882. Pall Mall G., 7 Oct., 1. France is full of the unshot, unburned rubbish or her last financial orgie.
