crimp(4) (iou) and unsound (iou)

crimp(4) (iou)

crimp verb1.

verb trans. Compress into pleats or folds; frill; make waves or curls in (esp. hair, with a hot iron etc.); make narrow wrinkles or flutings in; corrugate. (rare before 18.) OE.
verb intrans. Be compressed, pinched, or indented. rare. Only in LME.
verb trans. Cause (the flesh of fish) to contract and become firm by gashing or cutting it before rigor mortis has set in; transf. slash, gash. L17.
verb trans. Bend or mould (leather) into shape for the uppers of boots, a saddle, etc. L19.

unsound (iou)

unsound adjective. ME.
[from UN-1 + SOUND adjective.]
Not physically sound; unwell, unhealthy, diseased. Formerly also, wounded, injured. ME.
Blackwood's Magazine They were fit young schoolboys and we were unsound in wind and full of beer.
Morally corrupt; wicked, evil. ME.
C. Lamb Took a pleasure in exposing the unsound and rotten parts of human Nature.
Not mentally sound; insane. M16.
T. S. Eliot Unhesitatingly render a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.
Unwholesome, unhealthy. L16.
Not based on well-grounded principles; fallacious, erroneous. Now also, unapproved, unorthodox, heretical. L16.
C. McWilliam The gum is made from the feet of cows..and is therefore ideologically unsound. Essays in Criticism Prediction is an unsound gridding of past patterns of event upon the future.
b. Of a person: not holding sound opinions or beliefs, not reliable. L16.
R. Davies Thomas was unsound, if not actually a crook.
Not solid or firm; weak, rotten; fig. insecure, unreliable. L16.
E. F. Benson You make out that the very foundations of our life are unsound.
Of sleep: broken, disturbed. L16.
unsoundly adverb (a) harmfully; (b) in an unsound manner: ME.
unsoundness noun L16.

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