† 1. Uncovered, exposed. Obs.–1
1542. Boorde, Dyetary, viii. (1870), 247. When … you do slepe, let not … your handes, nor fete,… lye bare vndyscouered.
2. Undisclosed, unrevealed; not cleared up.
a. 1542. Wyatt, Psalm, ‘Oh happy ar they,’ 20. As adder freshe new stryppid from his skin, nor in his sprite is owght vndiscoverd.
1576. Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 64. All your loue is apparant and manifest unto me…, and neuer a part or parcel thereof left undiscouered.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., V. ii. 130. This Mysterie remained vndiscouer’d.
1697. Tutchin, Search Honesty, v. In whose Bigg Bellies undiscover’d lye The Fate of Kings.
1867. M. Arnold, A Wish, vii. The future and its viewless things—That undiscover’d mystery.
3. Not discovered, found, or come upon.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 285. What parts of the baul of the earth remained yet vndiscouered.
1602. Shaks., Ham., III. i. 79. The vndiscouered Countrey, from whose Borne No Traueller returnes.
1676. Glanvill, Ess., VII. 1. In that immense undiscover’d Abyss, that was beyond both the Old World, and the New.
1769. E. Bancroft, Guiana, 2. If we may be allowed to form an idea of things undiscovered, by the immense variety … of its Animal and Vegetable Productions.
1806. Lamb, Mr. H—, II. Wks. 1908, II. 758. Some yet undiscovered Otaheite, where witless, unapprehensive savages shall innocently pronounce the ill-fated sounds, and think them not inharmonious.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., xl. My paths are in the fields I know, And thine in undiscover’d lands.
1894. H. Nisbet, Bush Girl’s Rom., 171. They were not so pleased to hear that their cash was as yet undiscovered.
b. Not ascertained or made out.
1707. Mortimer, Husb., A 2 b. The detecting of specious and prevailing Errors,… so as to clear the way to what remains undiscovered.
1793. Beddoes, Calculus, 273. The grasses (of which the product is variable from undiscovered causes).
1855. Brewster, Newton, II. xxvii. 408. Those inspired doctrines which alone can throw a light over the dark ocean of undiscovered truth.
4. Not found out; unobserved, undetected.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., III. i. 369. Full often Hath he conuersed with the Enemie, And vndiscouer’d, come to me againe.
1669. Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., Penalties & Forfeit., 4. Goods … that shall be Exported, and escape undiscovered unto the Officers of the Customs.
1697. C. Leslie, Snake in Grass (ed. 2), 308. The Quakers take it very ill to suppose that Jesuits cou’d Preach among them undiscover’d.
1725. De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 63. A little cape which kept us perfectly undiscovered.
1798. S. & Ht. Lee, Canterb. T., II. 101. Let me fly undiscovered.
1890. Retrospect Med., CII. 310. In order to guard against the possibility of leaving a perforation undiscovered.
