Unsymmetrical carbon atom(Chem.), one which is united at once to four different atoms or radicals. This condition usually occasions physical isomerism, with the attendant action on polarized light.

Unsymmetrically
(Un`sym*met"ric*al*ly), adv. Not symmetrically.

Unsympathy
(Un*sym"pa*thy) n. Absence or lack of sympathy.

Untack
(Un*tack") v. t. [1st pref. un- + tack.] To separate, as what is tacked; to disjoin; to release.

being untacked from honest cares.
Barrow.

Untackle
(Un*tac"kle) v. t. [1st pref. un- + tackle.] To unbitch; to unharness. [Colloq.] Tusser.

Untalked
(Un*talked") a. Not talked; not mentioned; — often with of. Shak.

Untangibility
(Un*tan`gi*bil"i*ty) n. Intangibility.

Untangible
(Un*tan"gi*ble) a. Intangible. [R.]

Untangibly
(Un*tan"gi*bly), adv. Intangibly. [R.]

Untangle
(Un*tan"gle) v. t. [1st pref. un- + tangle.] To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread.

Untangle but this cruel chain.
Prior.

Untappice
(Un*tap"pice) v. i. [1st pref. un- + tappice.] to come out of concealment. [Obs.] Massinger.

Untaste
(Un*taste") v. t. [1st pref. un- + taste.] To deprive of a taste for a thing. [R.] Daniel.

Unteach
(Un*teach") v. t. [1st pref. un- + teach.]

1. To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught.

Experience will unteach us.
Sir T. Browne.

One breast laid open were a school
Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule.
Byron.

Unswear
(Un*swear") v. t. [1st pref. un- + swear.] To recant or recall, as an oath; to recall after having sworn; to abjure. J. Fletcher.

Unswear
(Un*swear"), v. i. To recall an oath. Spenser.

Unsweat
(Un*sweat") v. t. [1st pref. un- + sweat.] To relieve from perspiration; to ease or cool after exercise or toil. [R.] Milton.

Unswell
(Un*swell") v. t. [1st pref. un- + swell.] To sink from a swollen state; to subside. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Unsymmetrical
(Un`sym*met"ric*al) a.

1. Wanting in symmetry, or due proportion pf parts.

2. (Biol.) Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in number. See Symmetry.

3. (Chem.) Being without symmetry of chemical structure or relation; as, an unsymmetrical carbon atom.


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