[UN-1 7. Cf. OE. unsmóðe (usually unsméðe).] Not smooth; rough.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 9/2. A suture is vnsmothe and rugged.
1621. Fletcher, Thierry & Theod., III. i. Can there be any way unsmooth, has end So fair?
1638. Mayne, Lucian (1664), 356. May my limbes be for ever rough, and my chinne unsmooth.
1667. Milton, P. L., IV. 631. Those dropping Gumms, That lie bestrowne unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance.
1786. Burns, Lament, v. Alas! Life’s path may be unsmooth!
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, VI. 165. A peasant’s brow, Unsmooth, ignoble, save to me and God.
b. Of sounds, speech, etc.
1610. G. Fletcher, Christ’s Vict., xliii. How may weake mortall ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate stile?
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., II. viii. 79. Yet his own Poems are harsh, and unsmooth.
1812. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1836), I. 366. Its unsmooth mixture of the vocal and the organic … of language.
1846. Mangan, Poems (1903), 41. The things I sing of in verse unsmooth.
c. Of manners or conduct.
1648. Herrick, Hesper., Hymn to Graces. Give me … Sweetnesse to allay my sowre And unsmooth behaviour.
1782. V. Knox, Ess., clxv. II. 328. A-propose, pray do you reconcile your unsmooth address to those rules of decorum?
Hence Unsmoothness.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 9/2. We perceave noe vnsmoothnes; than [= but] all even and smothe.
