[f. prec. or UN-1 8 b.]
1. Opened, unclosed; not closed or shut.
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, III. 1953. And be day … Been al the dores opened wide And be nyght echon vnshet.
1426. Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 23403. The gate … Of the castel stood vnshet.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), II. 259/2. An hous the whiche byfore outwarde is moche ornate … but behynde all unshytte & … ruynous.
1606[?]. Rowlands, Terrible Battell (Hunterian Cl.), 36. From eare to eare thou hast a mouth vnshut.
1691. E. Taylor, Behmen’s Theos. Philos., 331. Whereby we ascend into his Arms, the unshut Light-World.
1849. M. Arnold, Forsaken Merman, 44. Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye.
a. 1851. Moir, Poems, Tombless Man, iii. And, in the midst,… An unshut gateway.
2. Not shut up.
1610. Bp. Hall, Apol. agst. Brownists, lv. 134. The plague … of sinne vnshut vp and vncouered.
