ppl. a. [UN-1 8 b. Cf. ON. úleiddr.]

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  1.  Not led; unconducted, unguided.

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1615.  G. Sandys, Trav., 66. I haue seene but few go away vnled from the Embassadors table.

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1693.  Dryden, Ovid’s Met., XIII. Acis & Gal., 52. Here on the midst he sate; his Flocks, unled, Their Shepherd follow’d.

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1758.  Monthly Rev., 503. Already reckoning captives yet unled.

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1817.  T. Jefferson, Writ. (1830), IV. 305. The people [were] not only unled by their leaders, but in opposition to them.

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1859.  Tennyson, Geraint & Enid, 577. His gentle charger following him unled.

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  2.  dial. Of a crop: Not carried in.

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1569.  Richmond Wills (Surtees), 219. Tathe ledd and unledd.

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  3.  Sc. Not carried out or prosecuted.

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1586.  in Bk. Univ. Kirk Scotl. (1839), 298. We hold the said proces and sentence as unled, undecydit or pronuncit.

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