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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unbrint, -brunt, -burnt, ppl. adj. Also: unbrynt, -birnt, wnbrunt, onbrynt. [ME and e.m.E. vn-barnd (c1290), vnbyrnyd (c1440), vnburned (1563); Brint ppl. adj.]

1. Not burnt, not consumed or destroyed by fire. Also fig. and in fig. context. a1400 Leg. S. xxvii 188.
In the fyr vnbrynt it [sc. the child] was 1513 Doug. i x 44.
Gyftis seir … Quhilk … from the fyre remanys ȝit onbrynt [Sm. vnbrynt, Ruddim. vnbirnt] 1535 Stewart 32974.
He … Leit nocht remane pertening to that toun Vnbrint in as or ellis cassin doun 1544 Corr. M. Lorraine 94.
Gif the toun resyst he sall byrn the remanent of it that is unbrynt 1555 Acts II 490/1.
Gif samekill restis vnbrint of the haill tenement 1562-3 Winȝet I 113/27.
Gif thai [sc. vestments, etc.] var pollutit in idolatrie, quhy reseruit ȝe the best part thairof vnburnt? 1571–2 Reg. Privy C. II 121.
For sauftie of the houssis … being within the same [sc. town of Edinburgh] unbrint and dimolissit 1629 Dundonald Par. Rec. 278.
He heard … Isobel Howie saye, There wer some ouer lang vnbrunt 1651 Stirling B. Rec. II 313.
To the sojouris … for saving ane firlott and ane peck of the tounes unbruntfig. a1500 Henr. Annunc. 40.
The low of luf haldand the hete Vnbrynt full blithlie brinnis a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 257 (Wr.).
No blood in me remaines Vnburnt or boyld within my vaines By loves bellowes blowne

2. Of lime: Not subjected to the process of heating. 1537–8 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 213.
For certane unbrint plaister coft in Dunde … for … colis to birne the samyn 1566 Treas. Acc. XII 405.
For ane bourding of unbrunt lyme 1610 Edinb. Test. XLVI 107b.
Fyve killis full of wnbrunt lyme