abbrev. of UNICORN 8 b.
1874. A. H. Markham, Whaling Cruise Baffin’s B., 137. A couple of narwhals, or as they are called by the whalers, ‘unies’ (unicorn abbreviated). Ibid. (1878), Gt. Frozen Sea, v. 67. Another source of amusement … was chasing ‘unies’.
