† tealt, a. Obs.
[OE. tealt adj. (whence tealtian, tealtrian, to be unsteady, shake, totter); app. not represented in the cognate languages]
Unsteady, insecure, shaky; fig. unreliable, precarious, uncertain. Hence † tealte adv., insecurely.
| a 1000 Runic Poem xxi. (Gr.), ᵹif hi sculun neðan on nacan tealtum, and hi sæyða swiðe breᵹað. a 1023 Wulfstan Hom. xxx. (N.) 149 Swa tealte syndon eorðan welan. Ibid. l. 273 Hu læne and hu lyðre þis lif is,..hu tealt. c 1315 Shoreham i. 231 For ȝef þat water his kende lest, Þat cristning stant te tealte. |