ppl. a.2 [UN-1 8.] Not furnished with a bit; unbridled, unrestrained. Also fig.
a. 1586. Sidney, Astr. & Stella, Sonn. xxxviii. This night while … vnbitted thought Doth fall to stray.
1604. Shaks., Oth., I. iii. 335. We haue Reason to coole our raging Motions, our carnall Stings, or vnbitted Lusts.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. xciii. 270. A limitlesse tongue is a strange vnbitted Beast, to worry one with.
1826. Mrs. Shelley, Last Man, II. 248. Like a troop of unbitted steeds.
1882. Stevenson, Mem. & Portr., xii. (1887), 211. The same fatal conflicts of unbitted nature with too rigid custom.
