Un*hoard" (?), v. t. [1 st pref. un- + hoard.] To take or steal from a
hoard; to pilfer. Milton.
Un*hold" (?), v. t. [1 st pref. un- + hold.] To cease to hold; to
unhand; to release. [Obs.] Otway.
Un*ho"ly (?), a. Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane;
wicked; impious. — Un*ho"li*ly (#), adv. — Un*ho"li*ness, n.
Un*hon"est (?), a. Dishonest; dishonorable. Ascham. — Un*hon"est*ly,
adv. Udall.
Un*hood" (?), v. t. [1 st pref. un- + hood.] To remove a hood or
disguise from. Quarterly Rev.
Un*hook" (?), v. t. [1 st pref. un- + hook.] To loose from a hook; to
undo or open by loosening or unfastening the hooks of; as, to unhook a
fish; to unhook a dress.
Un*hoop" (?), v. t. [1 st pref. un- + hoop.] To strip or deprive of
hoops; to take away the hoops of.
Un*hoped" (?), a. Not hoped or expected. "With unhoped success."
Dryden.
Blessings of friends, which to my door Unasked, unhoped, have come.
J. N. Newman.
Un*hoped"-for (?), a. Unhoped; unexpected.
Un*horse" (?), v. t. [1 st pref. un- + horse.] To throw from a horse;
to cause to dismount; also, to take a horse or horses from; as, to
unhorse a rider; to unhorse a carriage. Cowper.
Un*hosed" (?), a. Without hose.
Un*hos"pi*ta*ble (?), a. Inhospitable.
Un*house" (?), v. t. [1 st pref. un- + house.] To drive from a house or
habitation; to dislodge; hence, to deprive of shelter.
Un*housed" (?), a. 1. [Properly p. p. of unhouse.] Driven from a house;
deprived of shelter.
2. [Pref. un- + housed.] Not provided with a house or shelter;
houseless; homeless.
Un*hou"seled (?), a. Not having received the sacrament. [Obs.] [Written
also unhouselled.]
To die like the houseless dog on yonder common, unshriven and
unhouseled.
Sir W. Scott.
Un*hu"man (?), a. Not human; inhuman.
Un*hu"man*ize (?), v. t. [1 st pref. un- + humanize.] To render inhuman
or barbarous. J. Barlow.
Un*husked" (?), a. 1. [Pref. un- not + husked.] Not husked; having the
husk on.
2. [1 st pref. un- + husk, n.] Having the husk removed; without husk.
Bp. Hall.
U"ni- (?). [L. unus one. See One.] A prefix signifying one, once; as in
uniaxial, unicellular.
{ U"ni*at (?), U"ni*ate (?), } n. (Eccl.) A member of the Greek Church,
who nevertheless acknowledges the supremacy of the Pope of Rome; one of
the United Greeks. Also used adjectively.
U`ni*ax"al (?), a. [Uni + axal.] Uniaxial. — U`ni*ax"al*ly, adv.
U`ni*ax"i*al (?), a. [Uni + axial.] 1. (Crystallog.) Having but one
optic axis, or line of no double refraction.
In uniaxial crystals, the optic axis has the direction of the vertical
crystallographic axis. All tetragonal and hexagonal crystals are
uniaxial.
2. (Biol.) Having only one axis; developing along a single line or
plane; — opposed to multiaxial.
U`ni*ax"i*al*ly, adv. In a uniaxial manner.
U`ni*bran"chi*ate (?), a. [Uni- + branchiate.] (Zoöl.) Having but one
gill, as certain molluscs.
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U`ni*cam"e*ral (?), a. [Uni- + L. camera vault.] Having, or consisting
of, a single chamber; — said of a legislative assembly. [R.] F. Lieber.
U`ni*cap"su*lar (?). [Uni- + capsular: cf. F. unicapsulaire.] (Bot.)
Having but one capsule to each flower.
U`ni*car"i*na`ted (?), a. [Uni- + carinated.] Having one ridge or keel.
Craig.
U"ni*celled` (?), a. [Uni- + cell.] (Biol.) Unicellular.
U`ni*cel"lu*lar (?), a. [Uni- + cellular.] Having, or consisting of,
but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism.
U`ni*cen"tral (?), a. [Uni- + central.] (Biol.) Having a single center
of growth.
Unicentral development, that form of development which takes place
primarily around a single central point, as in the lowest of
unicellular organisms.
U*nic"i*ty (?), n. [L. unicus single. See Unique.] The condition of
being united; quality of the unique; unification.
Not unity, but what the schoolmen call unicity.
De Quincey.
The unicity we strive not to express, for that is impossible, but to
designate by the nearest analogy.
Coleridge.
U`ni*cli"nal (?), a. [Uni- + Gr. &?; to incline.] (Geol.) See
Nonoclinal.
U`ni*col"or*ous (?), a. [Uni- + color.] (Zoöl.) Having the surface of a
uniform color.
U"ni*corn (?), n. [OE. unicorne, F. unicorne, L. unicornis one-horned,
having a single horn; unus one + cornu a horn; cf. L. unicornuus a
unicorn. See One, and Horn.] 1. A fabulous animal with one horn; the
monoceros; — often represented in heraldry as a supporter.
2. A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the
Authorized Version of the Scriptures.
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?
Job xxxix. 10.
The unicorn mentioned in the Scripture was probably the urus. See the
Note under Reem.
3. (Zoöl.) (a) Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the
head or prothorax. (b) The larva of a unicorn moth.