a. [ Pref un- + Scot. chancy fortunate, safe. ] 1. Happening at a bad time; unseasonable; inconvenient. A. Trollope. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Ill-fated; unlucky. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
3. Unsafe to meddle with; dangerous. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly. Sir W. Scott. -- Un*can"ni*ness, n. G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]