Unscoured

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8. Cf. Sw. oskurad.)

c. 1460.  Stans Puer ad Mensam, 58, in Babees Bk., 30. Brynge no knyves vnskoured to the table.

1567.  Drant, Horace, Ep., iii. c vj. Thy witte is not of meanest sorte; it doth not lye vnskowrde.

1592–3.  Act 35 Eliz., c. 10 § 1. Beinge rawe unscowred … as yt cometh from the Weavers Beame.

1603.  Shaks., Meas. for M., I. iii. 171. Like vn-scowr’d Armor.

1630.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Jacke-a-Lent, Wks. I. 115. Making the band of vnscowred Halberdiers retire.

1702.  Guide for Constables, 141. He that scours not his ditches … shall forfeit 12 pence for every rod so left unscoured.

1830.  Carlyle, Misc. (1840), II. 345. Her kettles hung unscoured on the wall.

1894.  Outing, XXIV. 229/1. A handful of unscoured worms.