Unspun

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8 b. Cf. OHG. ungispunnan (MHG. ungespunnen, G. -sponnen), ON. úspunninn (older Da. uspunden, Sw. ospunnen).)

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1545. Rates of Custom, a vi. Cotton vnsponne … xxvi.s. viii.d.

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1565. Cooper, Thesaurus, Linum infectum, flaxe vnspunne.

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1571. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1835), 352. I haiue in the howse spunn and vnsponne vj ston of lynt.

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1586. in Kyd, Wks. (1901), 340. Her thred still holds, thine perisht though vnspun.

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1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., ii. 49. A filament of unspun silk.

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