v. [UN-2 3 and 4.]
1. trans. To convert from a stony state.
1594. Carew, Tasso (1881), 49. But let his hand that hardest harts gently Doth pierce, them both vnstone and mollifie. Ibid., 92. This fained sorrow drew from many a freake True teares, and harts vnstoand most hardened.
2. To castrate.
1611. Cotgr., Escouiller, to geld, lib, vnstone, cut away the stones of.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xxxi. 255. He had unstoned Friar Caulderiel.
