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Webster 1913 Edition

Unkempt

Un-kempt′

(?; 215)

,

Adj.

[Pref.

un-

not +

kempt

, p. p. of

kemb

.]

1.

Not combed; disheveled;

as, an urchin with

unkempt

hair

.

2.

Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.

My rhymes be rugged and

unkempt

.

Spenser.