[UN-1 8 b.] Not knit together or closely united.
1607. Markham, Cavel., I. xviii. 73. His ioynts being tender and vnknit.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Fair Maid of Inn, III. i. The petty brawls … shall, like tender unknit joynts, Fasten again together of themselves.
1809–14. Wordsw., Excurs., III. 914. Let us … Leave this unknit Republic to the scourge Of her own passions.
1860. Motley, Netherl., vii. (1868), I. 465. A loose, disordered and unknit state needs no shaking, but propping.
