[UN-1 8 + PRUNE v.2] Not trimmed by cutting or lopping.
1593. Shaks., Rich. II., III. iv. 45. Her Fruit-trees all vnpruin’d, her Hedges ruin’d.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., III. iii. I. ii. 673. If they [sc. women] be not curbed in time, as an vnproyned tree.
1649. Ogilby, trans. Virg., Bucol., ii. (1684), 12. On th’ Elm my unprun’d Vines neglected are.
1743. Francis, trans. Hor., Epodes, xvi. 52. Where … Vines unprun’d their blushing Clusters yield.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, XII. xviii. The unpruned taper flares a longer flame.
1863. Hawthorne, Our Old Home, II. 24. The hedges grow in unpruned luxuriance.
1882. Garden, 21 Jan., 49/3. An idea prevails that birds are not so likely to spoil an unpruned tree.
b. In fig. uses.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., IV. ii. 18. After his … vnpolished, vneducated, vnpruned, vntrained … fashion.
1619. Middleton, Love & Antiq., B 3. A Common-wealth That is vndrest, vnpruin’d, wilde in her health.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. xxviii. 89. No man ha’s preheminence, but wishes to preserue it in vnpruned state.
1814. Monthly Rev., LXXIV. 308. Addison lives, but not undecaying, nor unpruned.
1878. Masque Poets, 181. They let their unpruned fancies roll Round some old theme like hop-vines round a pole.
