unˈthawed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
Not thawed; remaining frozen.
| 1611 Florio, Indileguato, vnthawed, vnuanished. 1657 H. King ‘Tell me, you stars’ 10 Or give her my flame to melt that snow Which yet unthaw'd does on her bosom grow. 1665–6 Phil. Trans. I. 260 Solid Ice, that continued a considerable while unthaw'd. 1734 Pope Hor. Sat. ii. ii. 14 Your wine lock'd up, your Butler stroll'd abroad, Or fish deny'd (the river yet unthaw'd). 1774 Phil. Trans. LXV. 122 Whilst that [snow]..continues so many hours unthawed. 1825 Hook Sayings & Doings II. 283 His maiden aunt, whose heart had remained unthawed for upwards of sixty winters. 1856 Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vii. 243 [She bore] A babe upon her breast,..Unseasonable outcast on such snow Unthawed to this time. |