1. Of persons, or the feet: Having a shoe or shoes not put on, or taken off; not wearing shoes, barefooted.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., v. 45. Ðonne bið us suiðe fracoðlice oðer fot unscod.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Deut. xxv. 10. Nemne hine ælc man on Israhela folce unsceoda.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 15099. Tuelue or ma o men vnscod þan has he wit him broght.
1382. Wyclif, Isaiah xx. 3. As wente … Isaie nakid and vnshod. Ibid., 4.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., II. xi. 23. There follow’d fast at hand two wicked Hags,… Their feet vnshod, their bodies wrapt in rags.
1627. Drayton, Battle of Agincourt, 26. Vnshod, and without stockings are the best.
1693. trans. Emilianne’s Hist. Monast. Ord., 156. The Order of the Unshod Carmelites.
1728. Pope, Dunc., III. 114. Men bearded, bald,… shod, unshod.
1781. Cowper, Ep. Prot. Lady, 16. With unshod feet they yet securely tread.
1849. C. Brontë, Shirley, xxxiii. He left his shoes on the mat; mounted the stairs unshod.
1870. Rossetti, Burden Nineveh, ix. Any god Before whose feet men knelt unshod.
absol. 1382. Wyclif, Deut. xxv. 10. The hows of the vnshod.
1847. F. Prandi, trans. Cantù’s Ref. Europe, I. 212. The Order of the Unshod.
transf. 1535. Coverdale, Deut. xxv. 10. And his name shalbe called in Israel, the vnshodd house.
2. Of horses: Having cast a shoe or shoes; not furnished with shoes.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. xviii. 9/2. Most part of their horses [were] hurt on their back, nor they had nat wherwith to shoo them, that were vnshodde.
1530. Palsgr., 768/2. Your horse is unshod of bothe his hynder fete.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., 529. They use their Horses unshod.
1680. Lond. Gaz., No. 1569/4. One dark bay Nag,… lately rowelled, and trots all, and unshod.
1839. Darwin, Voy. Nat., x. 225. [It] would soon disable an unshod horse from taking part in the chase.
3. Not protected by an iron rim, toe-piece, etc.
1497. Naval Acc. Hen. VII. (1896), 87. A pair wheles vnshodd.
1557. in Raine, Richmond. Wills (1853), 101. One yron bound wayne and ij. unshode cowpes.
1601. in Moryson, Itin., II. (1617), 204. Ten Culuerings … mounted vpon vnshod wheeles.
1660. Act 12 Chas. II., c. 4. Rates, Shovells, unshod, the dozen, iijs. iiijd.
1869. A. Hume, Brit. Antiq., 27. The unshod wooden wheels of timber carriages.
