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Disobedient. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. -- Un*bux"om*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Un*bux"om*ness, n. [Obs.]

To undertake; to take in hand; to receive. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Rom. of R.

To reprove; to reprehend. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Not gored or pierced.

Want of power; weakness. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Not tended; not dressed. See 4th Tent. The untented woundings of a father's curse Pierce every sense about thee! Shak.

Unseasonable; untimely. [Obs.] "Untidy tales." Piers Plowman.

unto; towards; -- used of material objects. Chaucer. Taverners until them told the same. Piers Plowman. He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until. Spenser.

Rough; pricking; piercing. [R.] "Helping all urchin blasts." Milton.

Ourselves. [Obs.] Wyclif. Piers Plowman. Chaucer.

Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate. Bouvier. Vacant succession (Law), one that is claimed by no person, or where all the heirs are unknown, or where all the known heirs to it have renounced it. Burrill.

A Veronica. See Veronica, 1. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. A vernicle had he sowed upon his cap. Chaucer.

A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope. Piers Plowman. Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem. Milton. Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a vesture of plants. Bentley. There polished chests embroidered vestures graced. Pope.

long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has had. Ensigns that pierced the foe's remotest lines, The hardy veteran with tears resigns. Addison.

Food; victuals. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Chaucer.

Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends; mortal. The dart flew on, and pierced a vital part. Pope.

ragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc. Piers Plowman laid the cloth, and Simplicity brought in the voider. Decker. The cloth whereon the earl dined was taken away, and the voider, wherein the plate was usually put, was set upon the cupboard's head. Hist. of Richard Hai…

; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. Dampier. -- Vo*ra"cious*ly, adv. -- Vo*ra"cious*ness, n.

Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. "Wanhope and distress." Chaucer.

n matters relating to the watch, police, and the like. Brande & C. "Wards and wardmotes." Piers Plowman.