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Unsa(u)ld, p.p. Also: unsawld, wnsaulde, onsauld. [ME and e.m.E. vn-sold (Piers Plowman), vnseld (Wyclif), onsolde (1489); Sel(l v.] Unsold.(a) 14.. Acts I 306/2.
For ilk frael remaynand … vnsauld atoure the feste of Sanct Mertyn 1502–3 Halyb. xxi.
Thar standis ȝit ij sekkis of woll of ȝouris vnsauld c1520-c1535 Nisbet Acts v 4.
Quhethir it [sc. the field] vnsald [P. vnseld] was nocht thin, and quhen it was sald, it was in thi power? 1527 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 85.
That all vittallis … present the merket or it be set down in ony hous and thair to stand permanent unsauld quhill twa efternown 1536 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. II 77.
Ony persoun that can find or prief that ony merchant … hydes geir vnsawld for the pryce that wes in tyme bygane, that the said persoun sall haif the quarter of the escheitt for his lawbouris 1560 Rolland Seven S. 2980.
Quhen he was pure his lands he left vnsald 1564 Glasgow Prot. III 50.
Robert sall warrande the saidis reversioune wnsaulde or disponit till ony wtheris in ony tyme bygane(b) c1650 Spalding II 341.
The Danes gettis bak ther owne bark with sic hering as Maior Nathaniell Gordoun had left onsauld