[f. UNHARNESS v.]
1. Released from harness.
1676. Hobbes, Iliad, 212. The horses, that me brought, unharnessed Attend me at the foot of Ida hill.
1725. Pope, Odyss., VI. 103. The mules unharness’d range beside the main.
1859. Dickens, Holly Tree, i. (1899), 31. I had the honour of leading one of the unharnessed post-horses.
fig. 1867. Macgregor, Voy. Alone, ii. 29. I reclined unharnessed in the cabin, reading intently.
2. Divested of armor.
1664. Butler, Hud., II. II. 49. Where now arriv’d, and half unharest, To carry on the work in earnest, He stopp’d.
