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To prick, as with a thorn. [Poetic] I am the only rose of all the stock That never thorn'd him. Tennyson.

However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence. I would not be as sick though for his place. Shak. A good cause would do well, though. Dryden.

ustrate or defeat. If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. Shak. The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other. South.

is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy. A tidy man, that tened [injured] me never. Piers Plowman.

e house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can never stand idle long together. Landor.

of another person is to be kept in mind; a memento; a souvenir. This is some token from a never friend. Shak.

To come to; to reach; to attain to. The god, vindictive, doomed them never more-Ah, men unblessed! -- to touch their natal shore. Pope.

ssion so used. In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope never passed his lips. Bancroft.

troubled. John xii. 27. Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring. Shak. Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure. Locke.

. Book of Common Prayer. These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton. My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope.

st, and you baptize. Chaucer. A better priest, I trow, there nowhere none is. Chaucer. It never yet was worn, I trow. Tennyson.

to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us. I will never trust his word after. Shak. He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived. Johnson.

Never mounted by a rider; unbroken. "Unbacked colts." Shak.

Not begot; not yet generated; also, having never been generated; self-existent; eternal.

Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.

The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor.

Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings; as, an unfrequented place or forest. Addison.

Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable. The victor never will impose on Cato Ungenerous terms. Addison.

A member of the Greek Church, who nevertheless acknowledges the supremacy of the Pope of Rome; one of the United Greeks. Also used adjectively.

To deprive of a pope. [Obs.] Rome will never so far unpope herself as to part with her pretended supremacy. Fuller.