a. Obs. or dial. [OE. unstrang, f. un-UN-1 7 + strang STRONG a.] Not strong; feeble, weak. Also absol.
a. 900. O. E. Martyrol., 13 Aug., 146. His þrowung wæs þe lengre … þy þe hyra handa wæron unstrange hine to acwellanne.
c. 960. Rule St. Benedict (1885), lxiv. 121. Pæt þa strangan furðor wilnien, and þa unstrangan … heora þeowdom ne forfleon.
c. 1200. Ormin, 7911. Maȝȝdenn child iss all unnstrang Affterr wifmanne kinde.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 561. Þu art lutel and vnstrong.
13[?]. R. Gloucester’s Chron. (Rolls), App. G. 49. Her was hunger & hete; wo was þe vnstronge.
1382. Wyclif, 1 Cor. xi. 30. Therfore among ȝou manye syke, and vnstronge, or feble.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVIII. xii. (Bodl. MS.). Breste plates and oþer armure bi þe whiche vnstronge places of mannes bodie beþ warded.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., I. 1110. The chaumburs in the bathis may be wrought … other weyis fele … al though they be vnstrenger [v.r.unstronger].
1868. Atkinson, Cleveland Gloss., 551. He’s varrey unstrong, puir chap.
