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Absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.

Not deniable; incapable of denial; palpably true; indisputable; obvious; as, undeniable evidence.

In an undeniable manner.

To ravish; to deflower. [Obs.]

Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example; novel; new; unexampled. -- Un*prec"e*dent*ed*ly, adv.

Improvident. [Obs.] "Who for thyself art so unprovident.' Shak.

Imprudence. [Obs.]

Imprudent. [Obs.]

Imprudent. [Obs.] "The most unwise and unprudential act." Milton.

To relieve from sadness; to cheer. [R.] Whitlock.

Not yielded. [Obs.] "[By] force . . . is he taken unyolden." Sir T. Browne.

A modified form of dentine, which is permeated by blood capillaries; vascular dentine.

Disesteem; slight; disparagement. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.

Of or pertaining to the Waldenses. -- n.

A keeper; a guardian; a watchman. He called to the warden on the . . . battlements. Sir. W. Scott.

The office or jurisdiction of a warden.

The Wealden group or strata.

To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.

quality or state of being wide; breadth; width; great extent from side to side; as, the wideness of a room. "I landed in a small creek about the wideness of my canoe." Swift.