Also with advs., as together, up.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 344. Cloðes unseouwed bireined oðer unwaschen.
c. 1325. Pilate, 169, in E. E. P. (1862), 115. Oure louerdes curtel he dude on … Þat vnsued was of þred.
1535. Coverdale, John xix. 23. The cote … was vnsowed from aboue, wrought thorow and thorow.
1550. Bale, Image Both Ch., II. Pref. A iiij b. An heape of barbarous tearmes and vnsowed togither sentences.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., VI. iv. 14. But the bare ground … Must be their bed, their pillow was vnsowed.
1603. J. Davies (Heref.), Extasie, Wks. (Grosart), I. 90/2. On either side from her Armes to her Wast, It was vnsow’d, and made with Buttons fast.
1765. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, VIII. i. If slits in petticoats are unsewed up.
