ppl. a.2 [UN-1 8.]
1. Not tied, in various senses.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, II. 752. I am myn owene woman wel at ese,… Right yong and stond vntyd in lusty lese.
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 307. Suche adaies be now fele … That lete here tunges gon unteid. Ibid., II. 117. Mi sorwe is everemore unteid, And secheth overal my veines.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. xxiii. (Bodl. MS.). Þat partie of þe tunge þat is nyȝe þe pipe of þe lunges is vntied.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., XVIII. (Percy Soc.), 86. Myne owne I am, what that I lyste to do I stand untyed.
a. 1529. Skelton, Agst. Venemous Tongues, 4. I care muche the lesse what euer they say, For tunges vntayde be rennyng astray.
1617. Daniel, Coll. Hist. Eng., 114. There were Excesses to many committed in a time so vntied as this was.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., II. xviii. 89. The untyed hands of that Man … that hath the Soveraignty.
1725. Pope, Odyss., IX. 158. A port there is, inclos’d on either side, Where ships may rest, unanchored, and unty’d.
c. 1730. Ramsay, Bonny Tweedside, iv. Unty’d to a man … We never can thrive.
1888. Stamford Mercury, 27 April. An untied beerhouse, cottages and land.
2. Wrongly used for ‘unloosed.’
1608. Shaks., Per., IV. ii. 160. If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep, Untied I still my virgin knot will keep.
