unkennel
English
Etymology
un- + kennel
Verb
unkennel (third-person singular simple present unkennels, present participle unkenneling or unkennelling, simple past and past participle unkenneled or unkennelled)
- (transitive) To scare out from a lair or a den.
- (transitive) To let (dogs) out of a kennel.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To reveal, uncover or unfold.
- c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III scene ii:
- Hamlet:
- […] There is a play to-night before the king;
- One scene of it comes near the circumstance
- Which I have told thee of my father's death:
- I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,
- Even with the very comment of thy soul
- Observe mine uncle: if his occulted guilt
- Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
- It is a damned ghost that we have seen,
- And my imaginations are as foul
- As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note;
- For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,
- And after we will both our judgments join
- In censure of his seeming.
- c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III scene ii: