▪ I. unˈblown, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8 b, 8 c + blown ppl. a.1]
1. Not driven, tossed, or fanned by the wind.
| 1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Job xx. 27 Thick darknesse shall infold, a fire unblowne Devoure his Race. 1648 Bp. B. Duppa Soules Solil. 17 He..might the next year at his return find the same Letters un-blowne away. 1835 Campbell Fragm. Oratorio Bk. Job 29 By the fire of his conscience he perisheth In an unblown flame. 1878 B. Taylor Deukalion iii. v. 125 Groping first on fields of unblown mist. |
2. With -out: Not extinguished.
| 1642 H. More Song of Soul i. ii. cxviii, When others eyes plainly can nothing see, Then thy prodigious lamps by night unwet And unblown-out, can read right readily. |
3. Not sounded.
| 1815 Byron Hebrew Mel., Destr. Sennacherib v, The tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown. |
▸ colloq. Designating a vehicle or engine without a turbocharger. Cf. blown adj.1 5f.
| 1959 Los Angeles Times 12 June iv.12/1 To accord with APBA rules, her blown-Chrysler will be replaced with a 383-cubic-inch Mercury, unblown. 1982 Financial Times (Nexis) 15 May 9 The Mulsanne Turbo takes only 7.4 seconds to heave its 2 1/2 tons from a standstill to 60 mph against the unblown car's 10 seconds. 1992 Car Feb. 42/2 The Aristo sits on a new platform and gets the choice of two new-generation 2997cc straight-six twin-cam 24V engines, unblown and twin-turbo. 2004 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 16 Aug. d7 The fastest unblown car in the world. |
▪ II. unˈblown, ppl. a.2
[un-1 8 b + blown ppl. a.2]
Of flowers: Unopened; still in the bud.
| 1587 Golding De Mornay xiii. 213 The little flowers, which wee see vnblowen in the morning and withered at night. 1775 T. Percival Ess. (1776) III. 203 A purple flower, unblown, was suspended in the vessel with the lilas. a 1822 [see unborn ppl. a. 1 b]. 1845 Ballard & Garrod Mat. Med. 226 Rosa Gallica. The dried petals of the shops are the unblown flower-buds. 1850 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal XIX. 18 note, The formation shaped like the unblown water-lily. |
| fig. 1594 Shakes. Rich. III (1597) iv. iv. 10 Ah my young princes, ah my tender babes! My vnblowne flowers. a 1625 Fletcher Hum. Lieut. ii. iv, How yet unripe we were, unblown, unharden'd. a 1625 ― Love's Pilgrimage iii. ii, I hold my beauty..As right and rich as hers,..My youth as much unblown. 1784 Cowper Tiroc. 446 Boys are at best but pretty buds unblown. 1821 Shelley Epipsych. 265 As hair grown gray O'er a young brow, they hid its unblown prime With ruins of unseasonable time. 1893 B. Carman Lyrics, Why i, A name unknown, Whose fame unblown Sleeps in the hills. |