unˈwiped, ppl. a.
(un-1 8, 8 c.)
| ? 1602 in Donne's Poems (1912) I. 404 The mind..is like a Table-book, Which, th'old unwipt, new writing never took. 1605 R. F. Dedekind's Sch. Slovenrie (1904) 36 Your unwipte knife. 1648 Boyle Seraph. Love (1659) 100 A Fatherly Impatience of seeing a Spot unwip'd off in the Face he loves. 1716 Swift Acc. E. Curll Wks. 1841 I. 834/2 Recollecting that his own [breech] was unwiped, he abated of his fury. 1797 Coleridge Osorio iv. 223 His rosy face besoil'd with un⁓wiped tears. 1852 James Pequinillo III. 132 The unwiped noses of the horse-chestnuts. 1855 Browning Fra Lippo 36 The slave that holds..his weapon..yet unwiped. |