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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unpared en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + pared.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not pared.
    • Meanwhile he surveyed the room as minutely as if it had been a museum,--trying the rocking-chair, examining pictures, snapping vases with his unpared nails, opening costly books, smelling of scent-bottles, scanning the anti-Macassars and the Berlin-wool mats. 1859, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 18, April, 1859:
    • If unpared, wash and wipe each one to rub off the wool. 1903, Helen Campbell, The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking: