ppl. a. [UN-1 8 b.]

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  1.  Not ground in a mill; not crushed or reduced to powder.

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1488.  Acta Dom. Conc. (1839), 98/2. Half a boll of malt vngrond, price xs.

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1623.  Fletcher & Rowley, Maid in Mill, V. ii. Shall the sayls of my love stand still? Shall the grists of my hopes be unground?

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1631.  Gouge, God’s Arrows, II. § 24. 163. Some of them did eate the corne as it was unground.

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1722.  De Foe, Col. Jack (1840), 300. A hundred sacks of unground malt.

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1760.  Ann. Reg., Chron., 192/2. A duty of id. 1/2 … shall be paid on every bushel of malt, whether ground or unground, which [etc.].

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1805.  Dickson, Pract. Agric., I. 211. The trials which Dr. Hunter made with ground and unground bones.

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1882.  U.S. Rep. Prec. Met., 603. The mill is then stopped, [and] the water drained off from the unground sand and mercury.

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  2.  Not sharpened, smoothed, or worn down by grinding.

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1611.  Cotgr., s.v. Morfil, The edge side of a new and vnground knife.

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1793.  Phil. Trans., LXXXIII. 92. The swinging level…, fixed to the tube of the telescope,… is unground.

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1865.  Tylor, Early Hist. Man., viii. 193. The finding of hundreds of unground implements.

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1893.  Athenæum, 25 March, 382/2. The palæolithic or unground stage of the implement-maker’s art.

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