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Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.

To write with a typewriter. [Recent]

An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper.

The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.

One of a sect of rigid Anabaptists, which originated in 1637, and whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the Mennonists. In addition, however, they held that Judas and the murderers of Christ were saved. So called from the founder of the sect, Ucke Wallis, a native of Friesland. Eadie.

Unawares. [Obs.] Bale.

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

Not made by brewing; unmixed; pure; genuine. [R.] Young.

To unwind, unfold, or untie; hence, to undo; to ruin. Shak.

To hew less than is usual or proper; specifically, to hew, as a piece of timber which should be square, in such a manner that it appears to contain a greater number of cubic feet than it really does contain. Haldeman.

See Underlooker.

To release from confinement or restraint. Keats.

To draw the screws from; to loose from screws; to loosen or withdraw (anything, as a screw) by turning it.

To undo, as something sewn, or something inclosed by sewing; to rip apart; to take out the stitches of.

To deprive of sinews or of strength. [R.] Dryden.

A bout, or turn, as at fencing; a thrust; a hit; a veney. [Obs.] Fuller.

survey; examination by the eye; inspection. Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view. Milton. Objects near our view are thought greater than those of a larger size are more remote. Locke. Surveying nature with too nice a view. Dryden.

One who views or examines.

The quality or state of being viewy, or of having unpractical views.

Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen. "Viewless winds." Shak. Swift through the valves the visionary fair Repassed, and viewless mixed with common air. Pope.