Havelok the Dane (Legendary character) -- Romances
[Ihre shews that Icel. and Su.-Goth. _orna_ mean to acquire vital heat,
to grow warm. Hence _unorne_ means unfervent, spiritless, feeble, old.
Thus, in the _Hule and Niȝtingale_ it means _feeble_, _weak_; in Jos.
9. 5, it is used of _old, worn-out_ shoes. In the Ormulum, _unnorne_
occurs frequently, in the sense of _poor_, _mean_, _feeble_; see ll.
827, 3668; also _unnornelig_, meaning _meanly_, _humbly_, _obscurely_,
in ll. 3750, 4858, 7525, 8251.]
Unride, _adj._ S. [_ungereod, ungerydu_] It is here used in various
significations, most of which, however, correspond to the senses given
by Somner. Large, cumbersome (of a garment), 964; unwieldy (of the bar
of a door), 1795; deep, wide (of a wound), 1981, 2673; numerous,
extensive (of the nobility), 2947. _Unrideste, sup._ deepest, widest,
1985. In the second sense we find it in Sir Tristr. p. 167,
Dartes wel _unride_
Beliagog set gan.
And in _Guy of Warwick_, ap. Ellis, M. R. V. 2, p. 79.
A targe he had ywrought full well,
Other metal was ther none but steel,
A mickle and _unrede_.
In the fourth sense we have these examples:
Opon Inglond for to were
With stout ost and _unride_.
_Horn Childe_, ap. Rits. M. R. V. 3, p. 283.
Schir Rannald raugh to the renk ane rout wes _unryde_.
_Sir Gaw. and Gol._ ii. 25.
The soudan gederet an ost _unryde_.
_K. of Tars_, 142.
Cf. also _Sir Guy_, Ee. IV. in Garrick’s Collect. ‘Ameraunt drue out a
swerde _unryde_.’ In the sense of huge, or unwieldy, we may also
understand it in Sir Tr. p. 148, 164; Guy of Warw. ap. Ell. M. R. V. 2,
p. 78; Horn Childe, ap. Rits. V. 3, p. 295. In R. Brunne, p. 174, it
expresses loud, tremendous. Sir W. Scott and Hearne are both at fault in
their Glossaries, and even Jamieson has done but little to set them
right, beyond giving the true derivation, and then, under the cognate
word _Unrude_, Doug. Virg. 167, 35, &c., errs from pure love of theory.
Vnrith, _n._ S. injustice, 1369.
Unwrast, Unwraste, _adj._ S. [_unwræste_] feeble, worthless, 2821;
rotten, 547. This word occurs in the Saxon Chron. 168, 4 (ed. Thorpe,
p. 321), applied to a rotten ship, and this appears to have been the
original meaning. The sense in which it was subsequently used may be
learnt by comparing Laȝam. ll. 13943, 29609; R. Gl. p. 586; Chron. of
Engl. 662, 921; Ly Beaus Desc. 2118 (not explained by Rits.);
K. Alisaund. 878; R. Cœur de L. 872, and Sevyn Sages, 1917. It is not
found in Jam. Cf. A.S. _wræst_, firm.
Uoyz, _n._ Lat. voice, 1264.
Vre, _pron._ S. our, 13, 596, &c.
Vt, _prep._ S. out, 89, 155, &c. _Uth_, 346, 1178.
Ut-bidde. _See_ Bidd.
Ut-drawe, Ut-drawen, Vt-drow, Ut-drowen. _See_ Drou.
Uten, _prep._ S. out, exhausted, 842; without, foreign, as in
_Uten-laddes_, 2153, 2580, foreigners.
Ut-lede. _See_ Lede.
Utrage, _n._ S. outrage, 2837.
W. _See_ Hw.
Wa, _n._ S. woe, wail, 465.
Wade, _v._ S. Lat. to pass, go, 2645. _Wede_, 2387, 2641. Vid. Nares.
Wagge, _v._ S. to wield, brandish, 89.
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