ppl. a. (UN-2 9.)
In Shaks., L. L. L., II. 88 the Quarto has unpeeled for unpeopled of the Folio.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 360/2. Take vnpeeled Barlye,… and Misleden of Abiete,… with his leaues.
1725. Fam. Dict., s.v. Apricock-tree, Those [apricots] that are over-ripe, whether peeled or unpeeled.
1750. G. Hughes, Barbados, 182. If this unripe fruit [of the Papaw] when unpeeled is boiled.
1814. Southey, Roderick, XVIII. 127. He … held a natural cross Of rudest form, unpeel’d, even as it grew On the near oak that morn.
1887. Moloney, Forestry W. Africa, 361. Peeled Colocynth, and Mogador or Unpeeled Colocynth.
