Definitions
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- adjective Not wearing a
mitten or mittens.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And I've seen — why, damn you, hit the high places for salt water and that wife of yours, and — Here the Kid unmittened and jerked out his sack.
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Forty-five pairs of hands unmittened, and forty-five pairs of moccasins pressed tensely into the packed snow.
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The hood of her squirrel-skin parka was about her hair, and well drawn up around her throat; but her hands were unmittened and nimbly at work with needle and sinew, completing the last fantastic design on a belt of leather faced with bright scarlet cloth.
KEESH, SON OF KEESH 2010
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Casting off his pack and taking a seat on a fallen tree, he unmittened his right hand, reached inside his shirt next to the skin, and fished out a couple of biscuits sandwiched with sliced bacon and wrapped in a handkerchief -- the only way they could be carried without freezing solid.
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Then Hitchcock, for it was Hitchcock, upreared suddenly, shooting an unmittened hand out to the brute's shaggy throat.
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And I've seen — why, damn you, hit the high places for salt water and that wife of yours, and — Here the Kid unmittened and jerked out his sack.
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Forty-five pairs of hands unmittened, and forty-five pairs of moccasins pressed tensely into the packed snow.
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Then, acting on impulse, he started to walk towards the watcher, his unmittened hand on the butt of the pistol at his hip.
A Mating in the Wilds Ottwell Binns
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His unmittened hands were red and rough, and bore traces of the work he had been doing.
Purple Springs 1921
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And this time, David held out the unmittened fist.
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