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To remove or loose the belt of; to ungird.

To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow.

ering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. Flies o'er unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope.

Absence or want of benevolence; ill will.

Not benign; malignant.

To relieve of numbness; to restore sensation to.

Unbereft. [R.]

Not bereft; not taken away.

To be unbecoming or unsuitable to; to misbecome.

Unbecoming; not befitting. -- Un`be*seem"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*seem"ing*ness, n.

To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. [Obs.] Pepys.

To change the mind of (one's self). [Obs.]

Unawares. [Obs.] Bale.

To free from a spell; to disenchant. [R.] South.

A beam or ray of the sun. "Evening sunbeams." Keble. Thither came Uriel, gliding through the even On a sunbeam. Milton.

unication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. [They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers. Priestley.

on approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith. Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. Mark ix. 24. With the heart man believeth unto righteousness. Rom. x. 10.

Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath. They beheld, with a just loathing and disdain, . . . how below all history the persons and their actions were. Milton. Who thinks no fact below his regard. Hallam.

brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming. He will do nothing that is beneath his high station. Atterbury.

To possess or have; as, to boast a name. To boast one's self, to speak with unbecoming confidence in, and approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic] Boast not thyself of to-morrow. Prov. xxvii.