Hinder-weard

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hinder-weard

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hinder-weard
adj. Backward, slow :-- Nis hé hinderweard swár ne swongor swá sume fuglas ða ðe late þurh lyft lácaþ fiþrum non tamen est tarda, ut volucres quæ corpore magno incessus pigros per grave pondus habent, Exon. 60 a; Th. 220, 2; Ph. 314. hinder-weard
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