Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not seen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective colloq. Doing or done without sight; not seeing or examining.
  • adjective a colloquial phrase, denoting unseeing unseen, or unseen repeated; as, to buy a thing unsight unseen, that is, without seeing it.

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Examples

  • So each took one “unsight and unseen” aid made the more exact distributions among themselves later.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Vanyel banished the spell of unsight as they thundered in the gilded gates.

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • Vanyel banished the spell of unsight as they thundered in the gilded gates.

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • When I came to marriageable age, and, "unsight, unseen," was induced to espouse the veiled Amina, it was, as we say in Bagdad, like "buying a pig in a poke," although rumor greatly magnified her charms, and a secret inclination prompted me.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • He was more than sixty years old when, seeing a beautiful _female slipper_ in a shoemaker's shop, he fell violently in love, unsight, unseen, with the person for whom it was made; and having discovered the lady, married her.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832. Various

  • It's up to you to see that we pass down this vale of tears, unsight an 'unsung, as the poet says, or off comes your hind legs.

    The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country 1921

  • "And you were willing to give up four days to carry my message through, 'unsight -- unseen,' as we children used to say?"

    The Unspeakable Perk Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • He knew that when he should embark on his attempt to enlist considerable capital in an "unsight unseen" investment, he would have to be well supplied with statistics.

    The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

  • I told him about Aunt 'Melie, and how I'd bought the place unsight and unseen.

    Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

  • He knew that when he should embark on his attempt to enlist considerable capital in an "unsight unseen" investment, he would have to be well supplied with statistics.

    The Blazed Trail 1902

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