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▪ I. † unˈlede, n.1 Obs.
[un-1 4 b + lede n.]
A foreign or hostile people.
c1205Lay. 4982 Heo comen to his neode to driuen vt þa vnleoden. a1300Cursor M. 7641 Wit þat vnled [v.rr. unlede, folke] son dauid mete, And wightli wan o þam his dete.
▪ II. † unlede, a. and n.2
Forms: 1 unlǽde, 3 vnlede (-ledde), oun-, 4 onlede; 7 unleed, -lead, 9 unlete.
[OE. unlǽd(e (un-1 7), = Goth. unlêds (or unlêþs) poor.]
1. adj. Unhappy, miserable; wicked, evil; dreadful.
a1250Owl & Night. 976 Solde euch mon wonie & grede, Riȝt suich hi weren unlede. c1275Sinners Beware 72 in O.E. Misc. 74 To donne he beoþ swete. Þy vs is eþ-gete Helle þat is vnlede. c1315Shoreham i. 588 Ounde and wreþe and coueytyng, Sleuþe and lestes on-lede. a1400St. Alexius (Trin.) 333 Ofte hy him bete and burste, Þo vnlede fode.
2. n. A vile or detestable person or thing.
c1315Shoreham iv. 235 Þe ferste pryns hys prede, Þat ledeþ þane flok, Þat of alle oþere onlede Hys rote and eke stok. 1677Nicolson in Trans. Royal Soc. Lit. (1870) IX. 321 Unlead, outlaw. 1691Ray N.C. Words 138 Unleed or Unlead,..any crawling venomous creature; as a Toad, etc. It's sometimes ascribed to Man, and there it denotes a sly wicked fellow,..the very pest of Society. 1829Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2) 315 Unletes, displacers or destroyers of the farmer's produce. |