v. [UN-1 4 b, 5.]
1. trans. To let out as from a sluice; to allow to flow.
1611. Florio, Schiuso,… vnshut, vnlockt, vnsclused.
1648. Herrick, Hesper., Sailing fr. Julia. Forbeare (In my short absence) to unsluce a teare.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymns Evang., Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 237. Unsluce his Blood, till now undrein’d.
1787. Generous Attachment, I. 167. Enough to unsluice the water from any female eye.
1826. J. Montgomery, Chron. Angels, Wks. 1841, IV. 309. Angels, with healing virtue in their wings,… unsluice earth’s bosom-springs.
2. To furnish with an outlet.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., III. xcv. Here did she seal her lips, unsluice her eyes To flowing rhet’ric.
1700. Dryden, Ovid’s Met., Mel. & Atalanta, 365. Now lofty Calidon in Ruines lies; All Ages, all Degrees unsluice their Eyes.
1721. Young, Revenge, II. ad fin. I must unsluice my overburthen’d heart And let it flow.
