ppl. a.2 [UN-1 8.] Not shut up or confined in a cage.

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a. 1734.  Pope, Epigr. Dennis, 7. Uncag’d then let the harmless monster rage.

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1775.  Ash, Uncaged,… not put into a cage.

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1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 260. The capture of an uncaged bird.

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1893.  in J. H. Barrows, World’s Parlt. Relig., II. 820. The [Jewish] spirit … shows in this free land the elasticity of the uncaged eagle.

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