ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. older Flem. onghewaetert (Kilian), Du. ongewatert, G. ungewässert.]

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  1.  Not sprinkled, moistened, or artificially supplied with water.

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c. 1440.  Pallad. on Husb., X. 111. Tyl hit be hard, vnwattred must hit [sc. land] be, Lest al the werk corrupte humydite.

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1648.  Hexham, II. Ongewatert, Vnwatered, or Vnsprinckled.

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1731.  Pope, Ep. Burlington, 125. Un-watered see the drooping sea-horse mourn.

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1899.  Daily News, 12 June, 7/5. To facilitate cavalry charges the main thoroughfares remained unwatered.

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  b.  Of dress materials: (see WATER v. 9).

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1535.  in Archaeol., IX. 248. A long gowne of unwatered chamblette.

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1583.  Rates Custome ho., B ij. Chamlets watered and vnwatred.

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1648.  Hexham, II. Ongewatert Kamelot, Vnwatered Chamlot.

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1706.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4189/4. Coarse unwatered Camblets.

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1750.  Lady Jane Coke, Lett. (1899), 61. I have given half-a-guinea for an unwatered tabby.

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  † 2.  Not soaked or steeped in water. Obs.

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1511.  Fabyan, Will, in Chron. (1811), p. v. Than I will that the said .xxiiij. peces of fleshe be altered unto saltfyche or stokfyshe, unwatered and unsodeyn.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 51. Vnwatred, immaceratus.

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1648.  Hexham, II. Ongeweyckt, Not laid in water, or Vnwatered, as Harberdine, &c.

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  3.  Not mixed with water; undiluted.

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1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. 35 b. Entre into a bath, and drynke vnwatered wyne after.

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1576.  Gascoigne, Steele Gl., 582. Augustus Cæsar … seldome dranke his wine unwatered.

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1648.  Hexham, II. Ongewaterden wijn, Vnwatered wine, or Vnmixed with water.

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1870.  Emerson, Soc. & Solit., Farming. The farmer has a great health;… his milk at least, is unwatered.

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1887.  Bowen, Æneid, V. 78. Twain huge flagons of wine unwatered.

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  b.  Finance. (See WATERED ppl. a. 4 c.)

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1893.  Westm. Gaz., 29 June, 6/1. The 25 per cent. represents 1,250 per cent. on the original unwatered capital, or over £687,000 on a real capital of £55,000.

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  4.  Of land, a district, etc.: Not provided with a natural supply of water; waterless. Also in fig. context.

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1600.  Surflet, Countrie Farm, VI. vii. 740. In hot, drie, and vnwatered places.

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1794.  A. Young, Trav. (ed. 2), II. 152. The country (that I saw) is poor and unwatered, in the Milanese.

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1794.  Vancouver, Agric. Cambridge, 55. The grass … is chiefly inferior to that … which grows … upon unwatered ground.

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1828.  J. Montgomery, Tombs Fathers, Wks. 1841, IV. 178. Kedron’s unwater’d brook is dumb.

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1860.  Pusey, Min. Proph., 14. The soul of the sinner is … unfruitful;… for it is … unwatered by the Fountain of living waters.

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1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 100. The unwatered region away from the river.

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