Un-sláw

Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-sláw

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -slǽw, -sleáw; Related words:

Definitions

1 un-sláw

adj. Not slow, not sluggish, active, ready, quick :-- Unslǽw impiger vel praepes, Wrt. Voc. i. 49, 34. Unsleáw inpiger, 74, 34. Hé hine sylfne getengde in Godes þeówdóm æscróf, unsláw, Elen. Kmbl. 403; El. 202. Se ðe wǽre full sláw, weorðe se unsláw tó cyrican, Wulfst. 72, 15. Ðone ðe him on weorcum gecwémde elne unsláwe, Exon. Th. 159, 7; Gú. 923. Wígan unsláwne (St. Andrew), Andr. Kmbl. 3419; An. 1713. Hí slógon tógædere unsláwe mid wǽpnum, Homl. Skt. ii. 25, 375. un-slaw

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