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*UNTROUBLED. adj. 1. Not difturbed by care, forrow, or guilt.-Quiet untroubled foul, awake! Shak. 2. Not agitated; not confufed; free from paffion. Our Saviour meek, and with untroubled mind. Milt. 3. Not interrupted in the natural course.-Untroubled nature doth herfelf fuffice. Spenfer. 4. Tranfparent; clear; not mudded. Bodies clear and untroubled. Bat.

* UNTRUE. adj. Falfe; contrary to reality. By what contruction fhall any man make thofe comparifons true, holding that diftinction untrue. Hooker. That a veffel filled with afhes will receive the like quantity of water that it would have done if it had been empty, is utterly untrue Bacon. 2. Falfe; not faithful.

I cannot break fo sweet a bond, Unless I prove untrue. Suckling. -The men inglorious knights, the ladies all untrue. Dryden.

* UNTRULY. adv. Falfely; not according to truth. It was their hurt untruly to attribute fo great power unto falfe gods. Hooker. On thefe mountains it is generally received that the ark refted, but untruly. Raleigh.

* UNTRUSTÍNESS. n. f. Unfaithfulness.Gravity covered much untrufliness of heart. Hajw. * UNTRUTH. n. 1. Falfehood; contrafiety to reality. 2. Moral falfehood; not vera city.

He who is perfect, and abhors untruth, With heavenly influence inspires my youth.

3. Treachery; want of fidelity.

I would,

Sandys.

So my untruth had not provok'd him to it, The king had cut off my head with my bro ther's.

Shak. 4. False affertion. No untruth can possibly avail. Hooker. So notorious an untruth. Atterbury.

UNTUNABLE. adj. Unharmonious; not mutical. My news are harsh, untunable, and bad. VOL. XXIII.

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Shak.-A harsh and untunable found. Bacon.—His harth untunable pipe. Tatler. *To UNTUNE. v. a. 2. To make incapable of harmony. Take but degree away, untune that ftring. Shak.-And mufick fhall untune the fky. Dryden.-Untun'd the mufick, and difus'd the voice. Prior. 2. To diforder. Th' untun'd and jarring fenfes. Shak.

* UNTURNED. adj. Not turned.-New crimes invented, left unturn'd no ftone. Dryden.No ftone hath been left unturned. Woodward.

* UNTUTORED. adj. Uninftructed; untaught. Some ftern untutor'd churl. Shak.—Their fenfe untutor'd infancy may know. Prior.

* T. UNTWINE. v. a. I. To open what is held together by convolution.

But fince the fifters did fo soon untwine So fair a thread, I'll ftrive to piece the line.

Waller. 2. To open what is wrapped on itfelf. It turns finely and foftly three or four turns, caused by the untquining of the beard by the moisture. Bac. 3. To feparate that which clafps round any thing. All the Syren fongs of Italy could never untwine from the maft of God's word. Afcham.

* To UNTWIST. v. a. To separate any things involved in each other, or wrapped up on themfelves. Untavifting his deceitful clew. Spenfer. The intereft of prince and people cannot be untwifled. Taylor.

Untavifting all the chains that tie The hidden foul of harmony. Milton. -No, I'll untwift you. Dryden.-Tarred hempen ropes cut small and untwifled, are beneficial for lands. Mortimer.

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