Unclosed

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not enclosed or shut in; unenclosed.

c. 1400.  Rom. Rose, 3921. I wole with siker walle Close bothe roses and roser. I have to longe … Left hem unclosid wilfully.

1426.  Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 3208. Thogh thow sest hem bothe two Ber swerd And keyes in ther hond Naked & vnclosyd.

1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. ccccxxx. 306. And a thre leages in y^e way there stode the town of Mardyke, a great vyllage on the see syde vnclosed.

1543.  Act 35 Hen. VIII., c. 17 § 2. Every Month that the same Coppice … shall … be unclosed, not fenced, saved or preserved.

  2.  Not closed; open.

c. 1450.  Merlin, xxix. 597. Than thei … be-helde towarde the see where thei saugh the cristin a litill vn-closed.

c. 1470.  Golagros & Gaw., 60. The berne bovnit to the burgh with ane blith cheir, Fand the yettis vnclosit, and thrang in full thra.

1563.  Shute, Archit., C iij. The other side is lefte vnclosed.

1790.  Coleridge, Inside the Coach, 2 ’Tis hard on Bagshot Heath to try Unclosed to keep the weary eye.

1827.  Scott, Highl. Widow, iv. Night by night … she removed from her unclosed door to throw herself on her restless pallet.

1888.  Hon. Morten, Sk. Hospital Life, 35. If a man … has the smallest unclosed wound on his body.

  b.  transf. Of an account. (See CLOSE v. 8.)

1723.  Steele, Consc. Lovers, IV. i. 63. I don’t love to leave any part of the Account unclos’d.

  3.  Not joined so as to enclose a space. (Cf. CLOSE v. 11.)

1551.  Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., I. Defin. To speake properlie, a figure is euer made by platte formes, and not of bare lines unclosed.