2. To strip; to flay. [Obs.]
3. (Mil.) To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.
Uncastle
(Un*cas"tle) v. t. [1st pref. un- + castle.] To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.
Uncaused
(Un*caused") a. Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
Uncautelous
(Un*cau"te*lous) a. Incautious. [Obs.]
Uncautious
(Un*cau"tious) a. Incautious.
Uncautiously
(Un*cau"tious*ly), adv. Incautiously.
Unce
(Unce) n. [L. uncus hook.] A claw. [Obs.]
Unce
(Unce), n. [L. uncia ounce. See Ounce a weight.] An ounce; a small portion. [Obs.] "By unces
hung his locks." Chaucer.
Unceasable
(Un*ceas"a*ble) a. Not capable of being ended; unceasing. [R.]
Uncenter
(Un*cen"ter, Un*cen"tre) v. t. [1st pref. un- + center.] To throw from its center.
Uncentury
(Un*cen"tu*ry) v. t. [1st pref. un- + century.] To remove from its actual century. [R.]
It has first to uncentury itself.
H. Drummond. Uncertain
(Un*cer"tain) a. [Pref. un- + certain. Cf. Incertain.]
1. Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in mind; distrustful. Chaucer.
Man, without the protection of a superior Being, . . . is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
Tillotson. 2. Irresolute; inconsonant; variable; untrustworthy; as, an uncertain person; an uncertain breeze.
O woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please!
Sir W. Scott. 3. Questionable; equivocal; indefinite; problematical. "The fashion of uncertain evils." Milton.
From certain dangers to uncertain praise.
Dryden. 4. Not sure; liable to fall or err; fallible.
Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim.
Dryden.
Whistling slings dismissed the uncertain stone.
Gay. Syn. — See Precarious.
Uncertain
(Un*cer"tain), v. t. [1st pref. un- + certain; or fr. uncertain, a.] To make uncertain. [Obs.]
Sir W. Raleigh.
Uncertainly
(Un*cer"tain*ly), adv. In an uncertain manner.
Uncertainty
(Un*cer"tain*ty) n.; pl. Uncertainties
1. The quality or state of being uncertain.
