(ppl.) a. [UN-1 8. 9.]

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  1.  Not urged on by a spur. Also fig.

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a. 1635.  Corbet, Iter Bor., Poems (1647), 12. His Mare went truer then his Chronicle; And … unspurr’d, unbeaten, Brought us sixe miles.

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1865.  Meredith, R. Fleming, xviii. The replenished glass enabled Stephen to add the picturesque bits of the affray, unspurred by a surrounding eagerness of his listeners.

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1886.  Pall Mall G., 31 July, 2/2. Not altogether unspurred by hints from home.

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  2.  Not furnished with a spur.

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1852.  C. W. Hoskyns, Talpa, xvi. 133. Grazing Mr. Greening’s unspurred foot with the point of the leader’s stretcher.

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