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adjectives formed with this prefix coincide in form with compounds of the negative prefix un- (see 2d Un-); as in undone (from undo), meaning unfastened, ruined; and undone (from 2d un- and done) meaning not done, not finished. Un- is sometimes used with an intensive force merely; as in unloose.

Not according to Moses; unlike Moses or his works. By this reckoning Moses should be most un Mosaic. Milton.

Not subjected to Roman arms or customs. J. Whitaker.

A whitlow running around the finger nail, but not affecting the bone. [Colloq.]

A circle or cluster of gas-burners for lighting and ventilating public buildings.

Dried by the heat of the sun. "Sun-dried brick." Sir T. Herbert.

Overcome by, or affected with, sunstroke; as, sun-struck soldiers.

Having a large, protuberant belly, or one shaped like a tun; pot-bellied.

A tunnel. [Obs.] Shak.

Having the circumference of a tun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

t. (7) Greek insep. prefix a without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.

he driving motor varies from about 4 to 50 H. P. for ordinary vehicles, ranging from the run-about to the touring car, up to as high as 200 H. P. for specially built racing cars. Automobiles are also commonly, and generally in British usage, called motor cars.

A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried. H. R. Haggard.

ay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. Layard.

set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London. Dun-Edin's Cross, a pillared stone, Rose on a turret octagon. Sir W. Scott.

The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre.

An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, incapable, inapt. In- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial.

Invariably attached to some word, stem, or root; as, the inseparable particle un-.

A prefix used in the sense of not; un-; in-; as in nonattention, or non-attention, nonconformity, nonmetallic, nonsuit.