Uncumbered

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8. Cf. MSw. okumbradh.] Not encumbered.

1551.  Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., To Rdr. For neither is … mi laiser so quiet and vncombered, that I maie perform iustlie so learned a laboure.

1600.  Hakluyt, Voy., III. 64. But a seruant,… a good footman, and vncombred with any furniture … ouertooke one of them.

1699.  Dryden, To J. Driden, 18. Lord of your self, uncumber’d with a Wife.

1738.  Pope, Epil. Sat., I. 31. I have … Seen him, uncumber’d with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art.

1748.  Thomson, Cast. Indol., II. xxii. Unless … mighty patrons the coy sisters call Up to the sun-shine of uncumber’d ease.

1823.  J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 210. He is … uncumbered with the concealment sometimes practised, of bushes or sprigs hung about his person.

1870.  Bryant, Iliad, VIII. I. 261. The Trojans,… In a clear space uncumbered by the slain, Held council.