ppl. a. [UN-1 8 b. Cf. MSw. osalder, Sw. osåld.] Not disposed of by sale.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. V. 122. Bote nedde þe grace of gyle i-gon a-mong my ware, Hit hedde ben vn-sold þis seuen ȝer.
1388. Wyclif, Acts v. 4. Whethir it vnseld was not thin; and whanne it was seld, it was in thi power?
1489. Paston Lett., III. 354. If Bayard be onsolde, I pray yow late hym be made fatte.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron. (1811), 594. All suche marchaundyse, beyng than vnsolde, to be forfayted vnto the kyng.
1583. Melbancke, Philotimus, R iv b. Pertinax … did rather leaue his wood vnsould, then abate one blancke of his price.
1620. in Foster, Eng. Factories Ind., I. (1906), 207. The last yers corrall is unsould.
1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., Printing, 8. Some Trades are … sooner sold off, which renders the remainder of the un-sold Exercises unperfect.
1725. De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 246. I always reserved a small quantity of all goods unsold.
1809. Pinkney, Trav. France, 57. When the property of the emigrants is unsold.
1878. Jevons, Prim. Pol. Econ., 100. She begins to fear that she may have to carry her butter back unsold.
