ppl. a. Also 6 unbackte. [UN-1 8. Cf. Sw. obakad, Da. ubagt.]
1. Of tiles, brick, etc.: Not baked in a kiln; not exposed to heat.
1563. Hyll, Art Garden. (1574), 32. Ye water, in which the vnbaked Tile hath bene soked, poured vpon their holes, doth destroy them.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health (1633), 191. The stones burned in an vnbaked pot … and the ashes burnt wil serue for Spodium.
1598. Florio, Mattoni crudi, vnbaked brickes, white bricks.
1787. Phil. Trans., LXXVII. 291. This handle consists of turned unbaked mahogany:
1853. J. Lang, Wetherbys, 171. A barrack blown down, and dust issuing like smoke from the mass of rotten timber and badly-built walls, which had been made of unbaked bricks to save expense!
1869. Tozer, Highl. Turkey, I. 375. Miserable hovels of unbaked brick.
2. Of bread, etc.: Not prepared by baking.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 370. There was offered … cleane meale vnbaked.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, II. cxvi. 310. Maynardus … putteth it into the midle of an vnbackte loafe, so letting it bake vntil the bread be wel backte.
1611. Florio, Incotto, vnsodden, vnbaked, vnrosted, vnboyled.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Dough,… the Mass of Bread unbaked.
1769. Cook, Voy. round World, I. xvii. (1773), 202. A quart of the pounded bread-fruit, which is as substantial as the thickest unbaked custard.
3. fig. Left in an unfinished or immature state.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, IV. v. 3. All the vnbak’d and dowy youth of a nation.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Elder Brother, II. ii. A little unbak’d Poetry, such as the Dablers of our time contrive.
1635. Pagitt, Christianogr., II. vi. (1636), 40. Their Masse was then unmoulded, Transubstantiation unbaked.
