ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not cleared off or settled; undischarged.
1637. Rutherford, Lett. (1664), 132. When he & I fall in reckoning, we are both behinde,… & so marches lie still unrid & counts uncleared betwixt us.
172[?]. Ramsay, Evergreen, Gloss., Unquit, uncleared or unpaid.
2. Not cleared or freed from something which encumbers; esp. not cleared of trees.
1772. Cook, Voy., I. v. (1773), 60. There was neither gnat nor musquito,… which perhaps is more than can be said of any other uncleared country.
1805. R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric., I. 391. The water … is conveyed in a rut perpetually descending along the whole line of the uncleared moss.
1822. J. Flint, Lett. Amer., 239. In the uncleared woods, which are not suitable pastures for sheep.
1829. Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), I. 234. Savage animals abounded as much in Scotland as in the other uncleared and wooded regions of northern Europe.
1880. J. C. Crawford, N. Zealand & Australia, 27. The whole distance traversed … was through dense and uncleared forest.
3. Not freed from the imputation of guilt.
1724. Savage, Sir T. Overbury, IV. i. 35. To fly, wou’d be, to leave my Fame unclear’d.
1903. Westm. Gaz., 26 Jan., 8/2. Were the Crown to … release the prisoner, he would for ever remain an ‘uncleared’ man.
4. Not cleared up; not removed or explained.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), II. 405. A repugnancy, which, for want of cross-examination, remains uncleared up.
1861. [F. W. Robinson], Under the Spell, III. 237. That would necessitate another long night of suspense, with doubts ‘uncleared.’
5. Not freed from impurities; not made clear or transparent.
1837. M. Donovan, Dom. Econ., II. 343. It appears to me that uncleared coffee has a less agreeable taste than the same quality if transparent.
