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A turnspit. [Obs.] " One that was her turnbroach." Beau. & Fl.

twire 'tween their fingers. B. Jonson. I saw the wench that twired and twinkled at thee. Beau. & Fl.

A vagabond musician. [Obs.] You are an ass, a twire-pipe. Beau. & Fl. You looked like Twire-pipe, the taborer. Chapman.

Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed. The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser. Like the toad, ugly and venomous. Shak. O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. Shak.

To release from a charm, fascination, or secret power; to disenchant. Beau. & Fl.

To free from clouds; to unvail; to clear from obscurity, gloom, sorrow, or the like. Beau. & Fl.

Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl.

Under; beneath; below. Underneath this stone lie As much beauty as could die. B. Jonson.

One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business. Beau. & Fl.

Something that is inferior and of little worth. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To deprive of fairness or beauty. [R.] Shak.

Ungainly; clumsy; awkward; also, troublesome; inconvenient. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Beau. & Pl.

To take off the glove or gloves of; as, to unglove the hand. Beau. & Fl.

Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech. The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. Sir W. Scott. -- Un*grace"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*grace"ful*ness, n.

Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely. Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome. Shak. I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe. Woodward.

Similitude between the parts of a whole; as, the uniformity of sides in a regular figure; beauty is said to consist in uniformity with variety.

Not arrayed in the dress of a morris dancer. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

t a nap. I did not attempt her with a threadbare name, Unnapped with meritorious actions. Beau. & Fl.

To deprive of necessary provision; to unfurnish. Lest her . . . beauty unprovide my mind again. Shak.

To be torn up by the roots. Beau. & Fl.