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  1.  a. Not satisfied; unsated.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boeth., II. pr. vi. (1868), 54. Rycchesse may nat restreyne auarice vnstaunched.

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1591.  Lyly, Endym., II. ii. I will … teare the flesh with my teeth, so mortall is my hate, and so eger my unstaunched stomacke.

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1596.  Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., II. vi. 83. Stifle the Villaine, whose vnstanched thirst Yorke, and yong Rutland could not satisfie.

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1613.  Heywood, Silver Age, III. i. His maw Vnstaunch’t, He still the thicke Nemean groues doth stray.

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  b.  Unrestrained; not stopped.

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1621.  N. Riding Rec. (1894), 34. Being unstaunchte they [sc. deer] raunge over all the adjacent fieldes.

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1826.  Scott, Woodst., xiv. I conjure thee by the unstanch’d wound.

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1850.  Blackie, Æschylus, II. 263. Fresh and unstaunched woes.

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  2.  Not made staunch or water-tight.

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1607.  J. Carpenter, Plaine Mans Plough, 220. Slugging on the waves of this ocean with an unstancht ship.

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1760–72.  H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), II. 126. The elements … came pouring from unstanched roofs.

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  fig.  1610.  Shaks., Temp., I. i. 51. Though the Ship were … as leaky as an vnstanched wench.

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