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See Swink.

An unknown land; unexplored country.

Crude native borax, formerly imported from Thibet. It was once the chief source of boric compounds. Cf. Borax.

r and game within a narrow compass. [Scot.] We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their tinchel cows the game! Sir W. Scott.

Color; tinge; tincture; tint. [Archaic] "Blue of heaven's own tinct." Shak. All the devices blazoned on the shield, In their own tinct. Tennyson.

Of or relating to color or colors; imparting a color; as, tinctorial matter. Ure.

A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.

To cause to be no longer clinched; to open; as, to unclinch the fist. [Written also unclench.]

Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial. As undistinctive Death will come here one day. Dickens.

Indistinctly.

Not flinching or shrinking; unyielding. -- Un*flinch"ing*ly, adv.

Not incumbered; not burdened.

To deprive of the character or authority of a prince; to divest of principality of sovereignty. [R.] Swift.

To destroy the moral principles of. [R.]

Being without principles; especially, being without right moral principles; also, characterized by absence of principle. -- Un*prin"ci*pled*ness, n.

Not sincere or pure; insincere. [Obs.] Dryden. -- Un`sin*cere"ness, n. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being unsincere or impure; insincerity. [Obs.] Boyle.

A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole. [Written also velinche.]

The whidah bird.

Of or pertaining to Saint Vincent de Paul, or founded by him. [R.]