ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. a. Not darkened or obscured by shade; not covered by a shade or blind.
a. 1668. Davenant, To Queen, Wks. (1673), 218. Faire as unshaded Light; or as the Day In its first birth.
1792. Wordsw., Descr. Sk., 101. There, all unshaded, blazing forests throw Rich golden verdure on the lake below.
1843. Florist’s Jrnl. (1846), IV. 78. A small uncovered and unshaded bed of prepared earth.
1880. Miss Bird, Japan, II. 187. Buildings … with … unshaded windows.
b. Not provided with shade; fully exposed to light (or heat).
1802. H. Martin, Helen of Glenross, III. 166. No nankeen monkey figures then frisked round a muslin-dressed dabbish, unshaded mamma.
1837. Ht. Martineau, Soc. Amer., II. 49. We passed an unshaded meadow, where the grass had caught fire.
2. ‘Not having shades in coloring’ (Webster, 1828); not modified or toned down.
1823. Mrs. Hemans, Vespers Palermo, II. i. A very boy, on whose unshaded cheek The spring-time glow is lingering.
1893. W. H. Hudson, Patagonia, 158. Nothing here surprised me more than the song of the British wren—a current of sharp high unshaded notes.
3. Not marked with shading lines.
1868. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (ed. 10), II. 348. The annexed map, all the lands which are shaded belonging to the Australian and those which are unshaded to the Indian region.
1880. C. R. Markham, Peruv. Bark, 325. The identical plant figured in Plate X.… (the unshaded branch with capsules).
