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To become unsettled or unfixed; to be disordered. Shak.

The quality or state of being unsettled.

The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance. J. H. Newman.

Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

meat, fragments of meat or other food. -- Broken number, a fraction. -- Broken weather, unsettled weather.

To put in motion; to disturb; to unsettle. [R.] Straight the sands, Commoved around, in gathering eddies play. Thomson.

To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.

To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up. Or discomposed the headdress of a prude. Pope.

To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.

To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants. I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl.

To unsettle. [Obs.]

The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.

To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted. A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her. Shak.

Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.

Having different minds at different times; unsettled; undetermined. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Jas. i. 8.

on of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation. Doubt is the beginning and the end of our efforts to know. Sir W. Hamilton. Doubt, in order to be operative in requirin…

One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.

One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. Camden.

That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.

ng. Univ.] -- No go, a failure; a fiasco. [Slang] Thackeray. -- On the go, moving about; unsettled. [Colloq.]