ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not thawed; remaining frozen.
1611. Florio, Indileguato, vnthawed, vnuanished.
1657. H. King, ‘Tell me, you stars,’ 10. Or give her my flame to melt that snow Which yet unthaw’d does on her bosom grow.
1665–6. Phil. Trans., I. 260. Solid Ice, that continued a considerable while unthaw’d.
1734. Pope, Hor. Sat., II. ii. 14. Your wine lock’d up, your Butler stroll’d abroad, Or fish deny’d (the river yet unthaw’d).
1774. Phil. Trans., LXV. 122. Whilst that [snow] … continues so many hours unthawed.
1825. Hook, Sayings & Doings, II. 283. His maiden aunt, whose heart had remained unthawed for upwards of sixty winters.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, VII. 243. [She bore] A babe upon her breast,… Unseasonable outcast on such snow Unthawed to this time.
