Unbranded

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

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1641. Milton, Animadv., Wks. 1851, III. 230. Lest his conversation unprohibited, or unbranded, might breath a pestilentiall murrein into the other sheepe.

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1886. Daily News, 4 June, 6/3. Butter:… price of unbranded, 78s, 71s, 66s.

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1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 232. Cows, unbranded calves, and pen-branded bullocks.

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1892. Academy, 23 Jan., 81/3. What is false and heartless is not allowed to pass unbranded under its screen of art.

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