ppl. a. Also 4 vngraue. [UN-1 8 b. Cf. (M)Du. ongegraven unburied, undug]
1. Not engraved or carved.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. IV. 130. That … Rome-renneres [take] … no siluer ouer see,… Noyther graue ne vngraue.
1611. Florio, Inscolpito, vncarued, vngrauen.
1651. Stanley, Poems, 169. The oaks that most obdurate are Shall … by themselves ungraven wear My verse upon their leaves and rind.
1855. M. Arnold, Balder Dead, II. 165. Young men who died Too soon for fame, with white ungraven shields.
† 2. Unburied, uninterred. Obs.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 11104. Kyng Priamus Thought … Where he myght saue Ector his sone Vngrauen with-oute corrupcione.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., V. x. 2590. Mony a day Vngraiffin [v.r. wngrawyn] out with þe erd he lay.
