ppl. a. [UN-1 8 b. Cf. ON. úleiddr.]
1. Not led; unconducted, unguided.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 66. I haue seene but few go away vnled from the Embassadors table.
1693. Dryden, Ovids Met., XIII. Acis & Gal., 52. Here on the midst he sate; his Flocks, unled, Their Shepherd followd.
1758. Monthly Rev., 503. Already reckoning captives yet unled.
1817. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1830), IV. 305. The people [were] not only unled by their leaders, but in opposition to them.
1859. Tennyson, Geraint & Enid, 577. His gentle charger following him unled.
2. dial. Of a crop: Not carried in.
1569. Richmond Wills (Surtees), 219. Tathe ledd and unledd.
3. Sc. Not carried out or prosecuted.
1586. in Bk. Univ. Kirk Scotl. (1839), 298. We hold the said proces and sentence as unled, undecydit or pronuncit.