ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not furnished with a string or strings; not arranged on a string. Also transf., not accompanied by music.
1593. Shaks., Rich. II., I. iii. 162. An vnstringed Vyall, or a Harpe.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, D iij b. Or thou wilt commend thy muse to sempiternity, and haue images … erected to her after the vnstringed silent interment and obsequies.
1655. Spurstowe, Wels of Salvation, 73. Like loose and unstringed pearles.
