ppl. a. (UN-1 8. Cf. NFris. unsalted, (M)Sw. osaltad, (M)Da. usaltet.)

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 366/2. On-powderyd, on-saltyd, insalitus.

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1541.  R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg., Q i. A maturatife made with butter wel wasshed and vnsalted.

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1579.  Langham, Gard. Health, 473. Pease…, whether they be gray or white vnsalted.

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1600.  Surflet, Countrie Farme, V. xvi. 682. Sprinkled with neats blood mingled with oile oliue vnsalted.

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1725.  Fam. Dict., s.v. Poupelin, Good melted and unsalted Butter.

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1731.  Arbuthnot, Aliments (1735), 187. The Cure of this Distemper lies in a Diet of fresh unsalted things.

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1820.  Scoresby, Acc. Arctic Reg., I. 342. Unsalted mutton and beef.

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1860.  O. W. Holmes, Elsie V., vii. Villages lying along the unsalted streams.

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  b.  fig. (See quots.)

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1602.  Marston, Antonio’s Rev., IV. ii. Your unsalted fresh foole is your onely man.

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1619.  Hieron, Wks., II. 489. It is impossible for a man of an vnsalted heart, so to counterfait the language of Canaan.

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1649.  Milton, Eikon., xiv. 139. Compiler of that unsalted and Simonical praier annex’d.

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1879.  Atcherley, Trip Boërland, 208. ‘Unsalted’ horses, i.e. those which have not passed through the ordeal [of the disease]

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