unˈbaked, ppl. a.
(ʌnˈbeɪkt)
Also 6 unbackte.
[un-1 8. Cf. Sw. obakad, Da. ubagt.]
1. Of tiles, brick, etc.: Not baked in a kiln; not exposed to heat.
| 1563 T. Hill Art Garden. (1574) 32 Y⊇ water, in which the vnbaked Tile hath bene soked, poured vpon their holes, doth destroy them. 1579 Langham Gard. Health (1633) 191 The stones burned in an vnbaked pot..and the ashes burnt wil serue for Spodium. 1598 Florio, Mattoni crudi, vnbaked brickes, white bricks. 1787 Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 291 This handle consists of turned unbaked mahogany. 1853 J. Lang Wetherbys 171 Badly-built walls, which had been made of unbaked bricks to save expense! 1869 H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 375 Miserable hovels of unbaked brick. |
2. Of bread, etc.: Not prepared by baking.
| 1577 tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 370 There was offered..cleane meale vnbaked. 1578 Lyte Dodoens ii. cxvi. 310 Maynardus..putteth it into the midle of an vnbackte loafe, so letting it bake vntil the bread be wel backte. 1611 Florio, Incotto, vnsodden, vnbaked, vnrosted, vnboyled. 1727 Bailey (vol. II), Dough,..the Mass of Bread unbaked. 1769 Cook Voy. round World i. xvii. (1773) 202 A quart of the pounded bread-fruit, which is as substantial as the thickest unbaked custard. |
3. fig. Left in an unfinished or immature state.
| 1601 Shakes. All's Well iv. v. 3 All the vnbak'd and dowy youth of a nation. a 1625 Fletcher Elder Brother ii. ii, A little unbak'd Poetry, such as the Dablers of our time contrive. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. ii. vi. (1636) 40 Their Masse was then unmoulded, Transubstantiation unbaked. |