Also 6 unsounde. [UN-1 8.] Not sounded, uttered, or pronounced; not made to sound.
1530. Palsgr., Introd. 16. No vowell is left unsounded … in a frenche worde.
c. 1532. Du Wes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 899. If the next worde … be a consonant, than shall the said s remayne unsounde.
1807. J. Barlow, Columb., V. 766. Every honest Muse with horror flings The name unsounded from her sacred strings.
1865. Trans. Philol. Soc., 15. The unsounded syllable of the third person plural of the French verb.
1884. H. R. Haweis, Musical Life, 119. I keep my Strad. in a cabinet behind glass. There he rests unsounded and unstrung.
