adj. I. despairing, hopeless :-- Da him eorla mod ortrýwe wearþ, Cd. Th. 18 f, 21; Exod. 154. Wé tó wáce hýraþ Qrum Drihtne, and wg to ortreówe (-trýwe, MS. A. : -truwe, MS. C. ) syndan Godes mihta and his mildheortnesse, Wulfst. gi, 14. Hia æt níhstan wǽron ortriéwe (-treówe, MS. C. ) hwæðer him ǽnig moneáca cuman sceolde, Ors. 4, l ; Swt. 158, 19. II. faithless, perfidious :-- Ortrúes cyuesdómes perfidi pellicatus, Hpt. Gl. 521, 33. Ortreówra cempena perfidorum militum, 415, or-treofwe