Unscreened

(ppl.) a. [UN-¹ 8, 9.]

  1.  Not protected or covered with a screen.

1648.  Boyle, Seraph. Love, xxvi. (1659), 167. Their being expos’d (unskreen’d) to the Sun’s refulgent beams.

1783.  R. Graves, Euphrosyne, II. 113. Yet in those eyes we see … (More bright un-screen’d) the pow’r … To make new conquests.

1801.  Monthly Mag., XII. 224. If I sit unscreened, with my back to the fire.

1859.  Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, liv. The little, grey, desolate-looking hamlet, unscreened by sheltering trees.

1891.  Nature, 20 Aug. Similar actions on cometary matter, unscreened as it is by an absorptive atmosphere.

  2.  Not passed through a screen; unsifted.

1851.  Laxton, Builder’s Price Bk., 132. Gravel unscreened, 5s. 0d. Per cubic yard.

1888.  Encycl. Dict., s.v., Unscreened coal.

1900.  Daily News, 21 May, 2/1. Unscreened town’s refuse.