ppl. a. Now rare. Forms: α. 4, 6–7 vnkemd (7 unkem’d), 5 vnkemmyde, 6 Sc. vnkemmit, 6–7 vnkemmed (9 un-). β. 5 vnkembyd, 6 -keembd, 7 -kembed, -kemb’d, -kembd. [UN-1 8. Cf. ON. úkembdr, MHG. ungekembet.] Uncombed, unkempt.

1

1390.  Gower, Conf., III. 260. Hire her hangende unkemd aboute.

2

1483.  Cath. Angl., 202/1. Vn kembyd,… jmcomptus, impexus.

3

1542.  Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 80 b. He brought theim foorth vnkembed & vnpiked, without cotes.

4

1565.  Golding, Ovid’s Met., I. (1590), 16. Hir haire unkemd about hir necke downe flaring.

5

1627.  May, Lucan, VI. 585. Laden she is with long vnkemmed haires.

6

1693.  Dryden, Juvenal, III. 121. His once unkem’d, and horrid Locks.

7

1697.  View of Penal Laws, 267. 1000 Tods of unkemb’d Wool.

8

1824.  Carr, Craven Gloss., Unkemmed, [1828 Unkemb’d] uncombed.

9

1860.  Kay-Shuttleworth, Scarsdale, II. 28. Ungroomed, and unkemmed strings of ‘gals.’

10

  fig.  1577.  trans. Bullinger’s Decades, I. i. 13/1. In these plaine and simple, not darke and vnkemmed books, is comprehended the ful doctrine of godlynes.

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