Unthrift
(Un*thrift") a. Unthrifty. [Obs.]

Unthriftfully
(Un*thrift"ful*ly) adv. Not thriftily. [Obs.] "Unthriftfully spent." Sir J. Cheke.

Unthriftihead
(Un*thrift"i*head Un*thrift"i*hood) , n. Unthriftiness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Unthriftily
(Un*thrift"i*ly) adv.

1. Not thriftily.

2. Improperly; unbecomingly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Unthriftiness
(Un*thrift"i*ness), n. The quality or state or being unthrifty; profuseness; lavishness. Udall.

Unthrifty
(Un*thrift"y) a. Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.

Unthrone
(Un*throne") v. t. [1st pref. un- + throne.] To remove from, or as from, a throne; to dethrone. Milton.

Untidy
(Un*ti"dy) a.

1. Unseasonable; untimely. [Obs.] "Untidy tales." Piers Plowman.

2. Not tidy or neat; slovenly.

Un*ti"di*ly adv.Un*ti"di*ness, n.

Untie
(Un*tie") v. t. [AS. untygan. See 1st Un-, and Tie, v. t.]

1. To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot.

Sacharissa's captive fain
Would untie his iron chain.
Waller.

Her snakes untied, sulphurous waters drink.
Pope.

2. To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.

Though you untie the winds, and let them fight
Against the churches.
Shak.

All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
Jer. Taylor.

3. To resolve; to unfold; to clear.

They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.
Denham.

Untie
(Un*tie"), v. i. To become untied or loosed.

Untighten
(Un*tight"en) v. t. [1st pref. un- + tighten.] To make less tight or tense; to loosen.

Until
(Un*til") prep. [OE. until, ontil; un- (as in unto) + til till; cf. Dan. indtil, Sw. intill. See Unto, and Till, prep.]

1. To; unto; towards; — used of material objects. Chaucer.

Taverners until them told the same.
Piers Plowman.

He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until.
Spenser.


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