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bdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish. Let's not unman each other. Byron.

To free from manacles. Tennyson.

Absence or lack of manhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ed; not made familiar with, or subject to, man; -- also used figuratively. [Obs.] Hood my unmanned blood bating in my cheeks With thy black mantle. Shak.

Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.

To divest of a mantle; to uncover. Nay, she said, but I will unmantle you. Sir W. Scott.

Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly. -- Boor"ish*ly, adv. -- Boor"ish*ness, n. Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion. Milton.

To cover as with breeches. [Poetic] Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore. Shak.

Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. Boyle.

To unman. [Obs.] Feltham.

some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon. An effeminate and unmanly foppery. Bp. Hurd.

The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness. Fuller.

To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.

The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness.

with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or unmanageable. I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me. Sir P. Sidney.

Not to be overcome, presuaded, or controlled by any reasonable method; unmanageable; intractable; not capable of being easily dealt with; -- used in a general sense, as applied to a person or thing that is difficult to control or get along with. This though, impracticable heart Is governed by a dainty-fingered girl. Ro…

Deficient in manhood; unmanly; effeminate. Lowell.

Unmanageable.[R.]

Unmanly; inhuman. [Obs.] Chapman.

s ever in "obsequious" at the present the sense of an observance which is overdone, of an unmanly readiness to fall in with the will of another. Trench.