v. (UN-2 4.)
1598. Florio, Disculminare,… to vnroofe, or vntile a house.
1607. Shaks., Cor., I. i. 222. Sdeath, The rabble should haue first vnroof’t the City Ere so preuayl’d with me.
1779. Hervey, Nav. Hist., II. 457. Three hundred houses were unroofed by it.
1844. Kinglake, Eöthen, viii. They actually unroofed a great part of the building.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq., viii. II. 288. Houses were unroofed, and the timbers were thrown into the fosse.
transf. 1804. Collins, Scripscrapologia, 59.
| Thus year after year, in a subaltern state, | |
| Poor Ben for his King fought and bled; | |
| ’Till time had unroof’d all the thatch from his pate, | |
| And the hair from his temples had fled. |
1862. Jas. Grant, Capt. of Guard, xii. Servers, pages, and pantrymen … unroofed the huge pasties of pigeons and venison.
Hence Unroofed ppl. a.1, stripped of the roof, made roofless; Unroofing vbl. sb.
a. 1500. Leland, Itin. (1768), II. 68. At the which tyme al the Chirch … lay to wast, and was *onrofid.
1779. Phil. Trans., LXX. 68. The sight of this town, unroofed, half buried under black scoriæ and ashes.
1814. Scott, Wav., lxiii. Unroofed cottages, trees felled for palisades, and bridges destroyed.
1876. Bryant, Flood of Years, 79. Temples stand Unroofed, forsaken by the worshippers.
1831. G. P. R. James, Phil. Augustus, I. xv. The *unroofing of the hovels.
