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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Uncouth

/(ŭn*ko͞oth")/ · Un·couth · IPA /ʌnˈkuːθ/
01 a. Unknown.
  1. 1.
    Unknown.[Obs.]
    “To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth.” — Spenser.
  2. 2.
    Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant.[Obs.]
    “Harness . . . so uncouth and so rich.” — Chaucer.
  3. 3.
    Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners.
    “I am surprised with an uncouth fear.” — Shak.
    “Thus sang the uncouth swain.” — Milton.
Syn. See Awkward.