unˈstrong, a. Obs. or dial.
[OE. unstrang, f. un- un-1 7 + strang strong a.]
Not strong; feeble, weak. Also absol.
| a 900 O.E. Martyrol. 13 Aug. 146 His þrowung wæs þe lengre..þy þe hyra handa wæron unstrange hine to acwellanne. c 960 Rule St. Benedict (1885) lxiv. 121 Þæt þa strangan furðor wilnien, and þa unstrangan..heora þeowdom ne forfleon. c 1200 Ormin 7911 Maȝȝdenn child iss all unnstrang Affterr wifmanne kinde. a 1250 Owl & Night. 561 Þu art lutel and vnstrong. 13.. R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) App. G. 49 Her was hunger & hete; wo was þe vnstronge. 1382 Wyclif 1 Cor. xi. 30 Therfore among ȝou manye syke, and vnstronge, or feble. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xiii. (Bodl. MS.), Breste plates and oþer armure bi þe whiche vnstronge places of mannes bodie beþ warded. c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1110 The chaumburs in the bathis may be wrought..other weyis fele..al though they be vnstrenger [v.r. unstronger]. 1868 Atkinson Cleveland Gloss. 551 He's varrey unstrong, puir chap. |