a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1611. Cotgr., Immangeable, vneatable, vnfit to be fed on.
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 16. The … Indians … formerly reckoned it [sc. opossum] as … uneatable an animal, as a hog.
1798. W. Blair, Soldier’s Friend, 16. Biscuits would … be preferable: a loaf becomes mouldy and uneatable in a few days.
1861. Musgrave, By-roads, 12. A dreary breadth of sand hills, dotted with tufts of uneatable herbage and rank weeds.
1876. Mrs. Whitney, Sights & Ins., xviii. We got an uneatable dinner (having blundered upon a wrong hotel).
Hence Uneatableness.
1859. Trans. Entom. Soc., I. 21. Thus showing that the spines were not the cause of the uneatableness of the larvæ.
