Un-gleáw

adj. I. of persons, without understanding, without skill, not sagacious, ignorant, blind (fig.) :-- Ungleáw imperitus, Wrt. Voc. i. 55. 49. Ungleu caecus, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 15, 14. Synt gé þus ungleáwe (inprudentes)? Ne ongyte gé ðæt...? are ye so without understanding? Do ye not perceive that...? Mk. Skt. 7, 18. Ungleáwe inertes, Wrt. Voc. ii. 45, 32. Hit ne biþ seó ylce ádl, þeáh ðe ungleáwe lǽcas wénan ðæt ðæt seó ylce healfdeáde ádl sí, Lchdm. ii. 284, 24. I a. where that in which there is want of skill is expressed :-- Ðá wæs ic ungleáw ðæs geþeódes ðara Indiscra worda ... ðá rehte hit mé se bisceop, Nar. 29, 14. Wé ðæs londes ungleáwe and unwíse (imprudentes; but the Latin is not literally translated) wǽron, 10, 6. II. of things :-- dull, not apt for service :-- Sweord gebrǽd gód gúðcyning, gomele láfe, ecgum ungl[e]áw (dull of edge; cf. sió ecg gewác, bát unswíðor ðonne his ðiódcyning þearfe hæfde, 5148-; B. 2577-), Beo. Th. 5121; B. 2564. [Icel. ú-glöggr not clever.] un-gleaw