[UN-1 8.]
1. Not furnished with men (cf. MAN v.1).
1544. Betham, Precepts War, II. li. L iij. That he leaue not his campe vndefenced and vnmanned.
1592. Kyd, Sp. Trag., IV. iv. 211. Set me with him—Vpon the maine mast of a … ship vnmand.
1670. Milton, Hist. Eng., I. 5. Not put to death, but turn’d out to Sea in a Ship unmann’d.
1726. Pope, Iliad, XXII. 469. See, if already their deserted towers Are left unmann’d.
1830. Marryat, King’s Own, xlvi. One of the unmanned oars.
1844. Kinglake, Eöthen, vi. Four of the craft … had been left unmanned.
1895. Marg. Stokes, Three Months in France, 230. The phantom ship, sail-less, rudderless, and unmanned.
fig. 1602. Marston, Antonio’s Rev., I. v. Native heate So prodigally flow’d t’ exterior parts, That inner citadell was left unmand.
1675. Dryden, Aurengz., IV. i. To guard that Breach [I] did all my Forces guide And left unmann’d the quiet Senses side.
2. a. Devoid of a man; empty.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., XII. lxix. 291. At first she feares, but lastly findes the Armor was vn-man’d.
b. Unsupported by men; unassisted.
c. 1620. [Fletcher & Mass.], Trag. Barnavelt, IV. i., in Bullen, O. Pl. (1883), II. 271. Make haste, he is yet unmand: we may come time enough To enter with him.
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., Pref. § 5. Nor let it render the modestie of this book suspected, because it presumes to appear in company unmann’d by any Patron.
c. Unoccupied by men; unpeopled.
1680. C. Nesse, Church Hist., 230. They left it [sc. the land] unmann’d thrice in the year.
1764. Goldsm., Trav., 142. Nought remain’d … But towns unmann’d, and lords without a slave.
3. Not trained or broken in; spec. of a hawk.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., III. ii. 14. Come ciuill night,… Hood my vnman’d blood bayting in my Cheekes, With thy Blacke mantle.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Acheter, Buy a house made, and a wife vnmand.
1623. J. Taylor (Water P.), Discov. by Sea, Wks. (1630), 28/2. Like a wild Kestrell or vnmand Hawke.
a. 1637. B. Jonson, Sad Sheph., III. iii. No colt is so unbroken, Or hawk yet half so haggard or unmann’d.
