Unleaded

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not weighted, covered, or furnished with lead.

1611.  in Essex Rev., XV. 47. The church is unleaded and unshingled.

1648.  Hexham, II. Ongeloot, Vnleaded, or Vnplumbt.

1909.  Westm. Gaz., 28 Aug., 2/2. The motion of the death-curtain, hanging free and unleaded from its headrope, would be inconceivably graceful.

  2.  Printing. Not spaced with leads; ‘solid.’

1902.  Westm. Gaz., 23 May, 7/1. Tucked away in an unleaded telegram … is an item which may possess some significance.