Meaning of unwayed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not used to travel.
   obsolete
2. Having no ways or roads; pathless.

Examples

“Captain Goyto met the person who had charge of it, and sent him to Ferrante without the horse, with a message that as the animal was young and unwayed, he intended to break⟳ him for Ferrante.”

“a. 1642, John Suckling, letter to a cousin for beasts that have⟳ been rid⟳ off their legs are as much for a man's use⟳ as colts that are unwayed, and will not go at all.”

“Though I am unwayed, yet I am going to depart this moment .”

“What an unwayed Behaviour hath this Flemish drunkard pickt (I'th' devills name⟳) out of my Conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me?”

“Fansie me leading, like⟳ Cattel, the remainder (if there be any left) of my rallied Army, through unwayed Mountains, and Summer- Thickets!”

“if her streets and roads are to be washed into the unwayed deep ; if the gay sunbeams that now flicker over her green hills and fields are to dance⟳ on the foam and surge and over the echoless caves of the ocean,—these dire happenings will come⟳ only when those who have⟳ known the Cape Cod of our day have⟳ been gathered to their fathers.”

“By contrast John Brinsley is worried by her cult of virginity; a 'malcontent' she lives 'all alone without a husband, ranging of the unwayed woods' (after her transformation he shows more approval).”

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