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Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural. [Obs.] "Such unkind abominations." Chaucer.

Unkindness. Tennyson.

Not kindly; unkind; ungracious.

Not kindred; not of the same kin. [Obs.] Rowe. -- Un*kin"dred*ly, a.

thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.

A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. There's fallen between him and my lord An unkind breach. Shak.

t away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife. Give me a bowl of wine In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. Shak. Burying beetle (Zoöl.), the general name of many species of beetles, of the tribe Necrophaga; the sexton beetle; -- so called from their habit of burying small dead animals by digging away the earth bene…

ip called him by name, but the cur snarled, snapped his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed. W. Irving.

teless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf, void, light, and naught. Holland. Deaf and dumb, without the sense of hearing or the faculty of speech. See Deaf-mute.…

To undo; to disfigure; to destroy. [Obs.] His unkindness may defeat my life. Shak.

An unkindness; a disobliging act. He might dispense favors and disfavors. Clarendon.

An act of unkindness; a disfavor. [Obs.] The interchange continually of favors and disgraces. Bacon.

Unkindness; disservice. [R.] A. Tucker.

To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to. Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them. Sou…

om reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman Hakewill.

lor (1630. ) To drink down, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness. Shak. -- To drink in, to take into one's self by drinking, or as by drinking; to receive and appropriate as in satisfaction of thirst. "Song was the form of literature which he [Burns] had drunk in from his cradle." J…

In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly. Shak. It went evil with his house. 1 Chron. vii. 23. The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us. Deut. xxvi. 6.

, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.

Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind. B. Jonson.

Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper. Take no unkindness of his hasty words. Shak