unˈhit, ppl. a.
(un-1 8 b.)
| 1513 Douglas æneid vi. xiv. 87 Quha wald the, gret Cato, leif vnhit? 1595 Raleigh Discov. Guiana (1596) 97 The woods are so thicke..as a mouse cannot sitte in a boate vnhit from the banke. 1601 B. Jonson Poetaster To Rdr. 26 Whilst I, at whom they shot, sit here shot-free, And as vn⁓hurt of enuy, as vnhit. 1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Yankee xiii, They all looked unhit, and said they didn't know. |