n. [ Named from its color. ] (Zool.) (a) The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre. (b) An American duck; the ruddy duck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Nav.) A vessel of light draught, carrying one or more guns, used for operations in shallow waters. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Nav.) Any small naval vessel carrying mounted guns. [ PJC ]

n. [ AS. sunnebeam. ] A beam or ray of the sun. “Evening sunbeams.” Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thither came Uriel, gliding through the even
On a sunbeam. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) Any one of numerous species of small brilliantly colored birds of the family Nectariniidae, native of Africa, Southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia. In external appearance and habits they somewhat resemble humming birds, but they are true singing birds (Oscines). (b) The sun bittern. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A glimpse or flash of the sun. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bonnet, generally made of some thin or light fabric, projecting beyond the face, and commonly having a cape, -- worn by women as a protection against the sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rainbow; an iris. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The burning or discoloration produced on the skin by the heat of the sun; tan. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sunburned r Sunburnt p. pr. & vb. n. Sunburning. ] To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sunburn; tan. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A burst of sunlight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Never mounted by a rider; unbroken. “Unbacked colts.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not supported or encouraged; not countenanced; unaided. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + bag. ] To pour, or take, or let go, out of a bag or bags. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ In senses 1 and 2, pref. un- not + balanced; in sense 3, 1st pref. un- + balance. ] 1. Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Com.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + ballast. ] To free from ballast; to discharge ballast from. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not ballasted. [ Obs. & R. ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. [ Properly p. p. of unballast. ] Freed from ballast; having discharged ballast. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Pref. un- not + ballasted. ] Not furnished with ballast; not kept steady by ballast; unsteady; as, unballasted vessels; unballasted wits. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unballasted by any sufficient weight of plan. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ 1st un- + band + -ed. ] Wanting a band or string; unfastened. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + bank. ] To remove a bank from; to open by, or as if by, the removal of a bank. H. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + bar. ] To remove a bar or bars from; to unbolt; to open; as, to unbar a gate. Heber. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not shaven. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Destitute of barbs, or of reversed points, hairs, or plumes; as, an unbarbed feather. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + bark rind. ] To deprive of the bark; to decorticate; to strip; as, to unbark a tree. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + bark the vessel. ] To cause to disembark; to land. [ Obs. ] Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + barrel. ] To remove or release from a barrel or barrels. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + barricade. ] To unbolt; to unbar; to open. [ 1913 Webster ]

You shall not unbarricade the door. J. Webster (1623). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not obstructed by barricades; open; as, unbarricadoed streets. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not bashful or modest; bold; impudent; shameless. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + bay to dam. ] To free from the restraint of anything that surrounds or incloses; to let loose; to open. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I ought . . . to unbay the current of my passion. Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + be. ] To cause not to be; to cause to be another. [ Obs. & R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

How oft, with danger of the field beset,
Or with home mutinies, would he unbe
Himself! Old Play. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + bear to support. ] To remove or loose the bearing rein of (a horse). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + beast. ] To deliver from the form or nature of a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + become. ] To misbecome. [ Obs. ] Bp. Sherlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. un- not + becoming. ] Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. [ 1913 Webster ]

My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + bed. ] To raise or rouse from bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eels unbed themselves and stir at the noise of thunder. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not filled with din. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + befool. ] To deliver from the state of a fool; to awaken the mind of; to undeceive. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + beget. ] To deprive of existence. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not gilded; hence, not rewarded with gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. un- not + begot, begotten. ] Not begot; not yet generated; also, having never been generated; self-existent; eternal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Unbeguiled p. pr. & vb. n. Unbeguiling. ] [ 1st pref. un- + beguile. ] To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. “Then unbeguile thyself.” Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not yet begun; also, existing without a beginning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not behooving or becoming; unseemly. [ Obs. & R. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not existing. [ Obs. ] “Beings yet unbeing.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not known; unknown. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. un- not + belief: cf. AS. ungeleáfa. ] 1. The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Disbelief. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not believed; disbelieved. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person; an infidel; a freethinker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Infidel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting; skeptical. [ 1913 Webster ]

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2. Believing that the thing alleged is not true; disbelieving; especially, believing that the Bible is not a divine revelation, or that Christ was not a divine or a supernatural person. “Unbelieving Jews.” Acts xiv. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Un`be*liev"ing*ly adv. -- Un`be*liev"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + belt. ] To remove or loose the belt of; to ungird. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Unbent p. pr. & vb. n. Unbending. ] [ 1st pref. un- + bend. ] 1. To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax; as, to unbend the mind from study or care. [ 1913 Webster ]

You do unbend your noble strength. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) (a) To unfasten, as sails, from the spars or stays to which they are attached for use. (b) To cast loose or untie, as a rope. [ 1913 Webster ]