a. Obs. Also 3 vnrude, 5 -ruyde; 4–5 vn-, 6 unryde, 4 oun-, 5 onride, vnrid; 4 vnrede. [OE. unʓerýde (ME. unirude UN-1 3) rough, violent, f. ʓerýde (once), ? smooth, pleasant; of obscure origin. Cf. UNRUDE a.1]
1. Severe; causing much suffering.
c. 1200. Ormin, 4779. All þiss wass utenn wiþþ unnhal Þurch swiþe unnride unnhæle. Ibid., 4784. Her wass unnseoll þe unnride inoh Till an mann forr to dreȝhenn.
c. 1300. Havelok, 1981. He haues a wunde in the side, With a gleyue, ful unride,… And he haues on þoru his þe, Þe vnrideste þat men may se.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 747. Wel neȝ ys guttes þat swerd him ran, & made hym a wounde ounride.
a. 1400. St. Alexius (Laud 108), 542. Al þat folk þat stod be-syde Þat say þe sorwe so vnruyde, Þey wepe ful tendreliche.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., III. 40. Man … was put out, in that tyde, In wo & wandreth for to be, in paynes full vnrid To knawe.
2. Of large size; of great size and strength; so large as to be cumbersome or unwieldy.
c. 1220. Bestiary, 646. Ðanne cumeð ðis elp unride.
a. 1240. Sawles Warde, in O. E. Hom., I. 249. Euch an [sc. devil] bereð … an unrude raketehe gled-read of fure.
c. 1300. Havelok, 1795. Þe barre … was unride, and gret ynow.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 3691. Þe dent of þat sper oun-ryde.
a. 1400. Sir Per., 1160. To morne … salle we togedir playe With wapyns unryde.
a. 1600[?]. Merline 1501 (Percy Folio). His tayle was great … his bodye was unryde with all.
b. Large in number; numerous.
a. 1300. Havelok, 2947. [All] it sawe … Hwou he it bar with mikel pride For his barnage þat was vnride.
c. 1330. King of Tars, 142. The soudan gederet an ost unryde.
c. Large in extent, rare–1.
13[?]. Metr. Hom. (MS. Ashm. 42), fol. 136. An vnridde spase es now Makid betwix vs and ȝow Þat none of vs maie come ȝou nere Ne none of ȝou maie come here.
3. Rough; violent.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 24845. Þe wind ras gains þam vnride.
1338. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 174. Þe noyse was vnride, it lasted alle day.
c. 1350. Ipomedon, 6492. Is knyght non, That darre fyght wyth hym alonne, So is the fende vnryde.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 739. Reviles he þis oþire renke with vnrid [v.r. vnrode] speche.
c. 1470. Golagros & Gaw. 630. [He] raught to the renk ane rout wes vnryde.
