ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]

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  1.  Not turned over, round, away, etc.

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c. 1550.  [see STONE sb. 16 c].

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1575.  Gamm. Gurton, I. iv. 12. So see in all the heaps of dust thou leave no straw vnturned.

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1665.  R. Oliver, in Earl Orrery, St. Lett. (1742), 120. I will leave no stone unturned, till I find out the root, from whence those wicked branches grow.

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1670.  [see STONE sb. 16 c].

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1760.  Law, Spir. Prayer, II. 79. Whilst man stood in his first perfection, unturned from God.

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1814.  Monthly Mag., XXXVIII. 438. Oft I took, and oft return’d This key, and left the lock unturn’d.

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1822.  Byron, Vis. Judgem., lxvii. Behold a candidate with unturn’d coat!

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1904.  E. Rickert, Reaper, 303. He wanted to see how much ground was unturned.

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  2.  Not shaped by turning.

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1816.  J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, I. 61. The part thus left unturned may be cut off either in the lathe or afterwards.

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1875.  Carpentry & Join., 88. The head … of the bed … may be made of unturned posts.

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