Unpared

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Of fruit: Not having the skin pared off.

c. 1305.  Pilate, 232, in E. E. P. (1862), 117. Þe gayler him tok an appel; he seide hit was vnriȝt Vnpared an appel take, an heȝ man oþer a kniȝt.

14[?].  Burlesques, ii., in Rel. Ant., I. 83. Adam, Adam, why ete thu the appull unpard?

1530.  Palsgr., 652/2. Can you nat eate a peere onpared?

1658.  Evelyn, Fr. Gard. (1675), 190. The fruits being pared or unpared, according to … your curiosity.

  2.  Of nails: Uncut, untrimmed.

1547.  Boorde, Introd. Knowl., 117. Who shall let me, the deuyls nayles vnpared?

1598.  Dallington, Meth. Trav., X iij. Wearing long vnpared nayles.

1635.  Quarles, Embl., III. vi. 146. If the peevish Infant fights, and flies, With unpar’d weapons, at his mother’s eyes.

1743.  Francis, trans. Hor., Epode, V. 60. Her unpar’d Thumbs Canidia gnaws.