Unshed

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8 b.]

  1.  Not shed or poured out.

c. 1450.  Mirk’s Festial, 242. Forto haue savytte gyltles blode vnsched on boþe parties.

1667.  Milton, P. L., XII. 176. To blood unshed the Rivers must be turnd.

1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 483. He … can make the same mass of blood exist at once unshed in the wafer, and shed in the cup.

1816.  Byron, Dream, v. An unquiet drooping of the eye, As if its lid were charged with unshed tears.

1880.  Miss Braddon, Just as I am, v. Dulcie’s eyelids were heavy with unshed tears.

  2.  Unparted.

1596.  Spenser, F. Q., IV. vii. 40. His faire lockes … He let to grow … Vncomb’d, vncurl’d, and carelesly vnshed.