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Unta(u)ld, ppl. adj. Also: wntauld, -talde, ontald. [ME and e.m.E. vn-teld (Cursor M.), untald (Rolle), vntold (Chaucer), OE unteald, ON útaliðr, útaldr.]

1. a. Not counted or reckoned. b. Uncounted because of amount or numbers, hence: Immense, vast; in huge numbers.a. 1603 Orkney & Shetl. Rec. I 222.
Renunceand actioun of wntauld money and all wther exceptiounis of the law that can … be … alledgeit in the contrairb. c1450-2 Howlat 548 (B).
Ane callit Murray … a dochter had to his deir air Off all his tresour vntald touris and townis 1460 Hay Alex. 1721.
Dawclyne … with ane sworde sic straikis gaue vntald, Thaire was nother helm nor hawbrek mycht outhauld 1535 Stewart 12391.
The deid bodeis that la als deid vntald, As euir did scheip that la intill ane fald a1500 Peblis to Play 46.
Thai out threw Out of the townis vntald(b) 1513 Doug. xi Prol. 197.
To susteyn weir and panys teyr ontald [Ruddim. vntald] 1513 Doug. xiii iv 102.
This cite Ardea … with wallis and towris hie ontald [Ruddim. vntauld]

2. Untold, not recounted or revealed.(a) a1500 Bk. Chess 486.
The sapiens that suld be in a quene … to hald In till hir mynd all secreit thing vntauld 1596 Dalr. II 330/5.
Nother wil we leiue wntalde, how the Inglismen straik monie battelis neir Hadingtoune(b) 1513 Doug. xi vi 67.
Ontald [Ruddim. vntald] all thai that in the feld … swelt vnder scheld