unˈleesome, a. Sc.
[un-1 7.]
= unleeful a.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints x. (Matthew) 10 Lewy, Þat as a tollare þare wes sate, Vnlessume wynnynge for to get. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xvii. 16 Thir merchantis takis vnlesum win. 1552 Lyndesay Monarche 5104 And sum, for thare vnleifsum actis, Ar rent and rewin apone the ractis. 1600 Hamilton in Cath. Tractates (S.T.S.) 235 How mony young wemen..hes murtherit the fruict of thair auin wombes, some be vnlisome drinkis. 1864 W. D. Latto Tam. Bodkin x. 92 The loons that had received the unleisum stoutherie. Ibid. xvii. 170 The unleisome possession o' the game. |
So unˈleesomely adv. ? Obs.
| c 1400 Sc. Trojan War ii. 1103 [To] lat of hyr virgynite The closoures vnlefsomely [L. illicite] To be broken. 1528 Lyndesay Dreme 230 Vnleifsumlie thay vsit propertie. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 207 Putting hand in the quenis grace vnlesomelie..but athir law or ressoune. |