See Also: Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The(dictionary)
unsought(dictionary)
Sleepy(medicine)
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The Legend Inn(tourism)
legend(encyclopedia)
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Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (oh) and unsought (iou)


Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (oh)



(1820) a popular story by Washington Irving in which the main character, Ichabod Crane, rides quickly through a frightening place called Sleepy Hollow because he thinks he is being chased by a Headless Horseman

unsought (iou)



unsought adjective. ME.
[from UN-1 + sought pa. pple of SEEK verb.]
Not searched for or sought after; not obtained by searching. ME.
G. Greene It was for these moments of unsought revelation that the Assistant Commissioner lived.
a. Unassailed. rare. Only in ME.
b. Unasked; uninvited. L15.
Unexamined, unexplored; untried. Now rare or obsolete. LME.