Unblooded

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  = next 1.

[1775.  Ash.]

1784.  Cowper, Task, V. 215. The shrew’d Contriver who first … forced the blunt and yet unblooded [1800 unbloodied] steel To a keen edge.

1818.  Milman, Samor, 78. To Hela’s realm, Unblooded, woundless, must the maid descend.

1831.  Scott, Ct. Rob., vii. As a man who dies in peace, and with unblooded hand.

  2.  Of an animal: ‘Not marked or distinguished with improved blood.’

1860.  Worcester (citing J. N. Brown).