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- adjective Not
pared .
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Examples
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Boyle your _Quinces_ that you intend to keep, whole and unpared, in faire water, till they be soft, but not too violently for feare you break them, when they are soft take them out, and boyle some
A Book of Fruits and Flowers Anonymous
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Take unpared Quinces, and boil them whole in fair water, peel them and take all the pap from the core, to every pound thereof add three quarters of a pound of Sugar, boil it well till it comes well from the pans bottom, then put it into boxes.
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And people leading domestic lives, afraid of the burden of taxes, become deceivers, while Brahmanas, falsely assuming the garb of ascetics, earn wealth by trade, with nails and hair unpared and uncut.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Meanwhile he surveyed the room as minutely as if it had been a museum, -- trying the rocking-chair, examining pictures, snapping vases with his unpared nails, opening costly books, smelling of scent-bottles, scanning the anti-Macassars and the Berlin-wool mats.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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At its circumference the sole, if unpared, is ordinarily as thick as the wall.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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Old Legion's bailiff would shortly be at hand, to distrain upon a soul escheat and forfeited to Dis by many years of cruel witchcrafts, close wiles, and nameless sorceries; and I could never abide unpared nails, even though they be red-hot.
The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918
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Soak sweet, unpared, sliced, dried apples over night in cold water.
Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" Edith Matilda Thomas 1889
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The shoes must be early removed and the soles left unpared.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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To bring out the full flavour of the orange-peel, rub a few lumps of the sugar on 2 or 3 unpared oranges, and put these lumps to the rest.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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Puff-paste No. 1205 or 1206, apples; to every lb. of unpared apples allow 2 oz. of moist sugar,
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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