unˈled, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. ON. {uacu}leiddr.]
1. Not led; unconducted, unguided.
| 1615 G. Sandys Trav. 66, I haue seene but few go away vnled from the Embassadors table. 1693 Dryden Ovid's Met. xiii. Acis & Gal. 52 Here on the midst he sate; his Flocks, unled, Their Shepherd follow'd. 1758 Monthly Rev. 503 Already reckoning captives yet unled. 1817 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. |