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Not tamed; not made familiar with, or subject to, man; -- also used figuratively. [Obs.] Hood my unmanned blood bating in my cheeks With thy black mantle. Shak.

To deprive of priesthood; to unfrock. [R.] Milton.

That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also, an act of treachery or disloyalty. Shak.

The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns. [Obs.]

grees uprun. Chaucer. [A son] of matchless might, who, like a thriving plant, Upran to manhood. Cowper.

ng no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be. Gen. iv. 12.

A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid. The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made. Blackstone.

The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood. Verisimilitude and opinion are an easy purchase; but true knowledge is dear and difficult. Glanvill. All that gives verisimilitude to a narrative. Sir. W. Scott.

The place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity; as, a jury must be of the vicinage. "To summon the Protestant gentleman of the vicinage." Macaulay. Civil war had broken up all the usual ties of vicinage and good neighborhood. Sir W. Scott.

r, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood. "The vicinity of the sun." Bentley.

The state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively.

Widowhood. [R.] "Chaste viduity." Ld. Ellenborough.

A member of certain charitable sisterhoods.

The quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood.

ing the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.

The quality or state of being virile; developed manhood; manliness; specif., the power of procreation; as, exhaustion. "Virility of visage." Holland.

Developed in manhood; hence, able to beget; marriageable. [Obs.] Being not of ripe years, not viripotent. Holinshed.

Neighborhood; vicinity; venue. See Venue.

Wearing a visor; masked. Visored falsehood and base forgery. Milton.

ries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack. [His hood] was trussed up in his walet. Chaucer.