adv. [UN-1 11.]
† 1. a. With difficulty on account of discomfort; only with pain or suffering. Obs.
c. 1290. Beket, 2211, in S. Eng. Leg., I. 170. With luytel aise he miȝte sitte, and ful on-aisi-liche ride, And on-aisiliche ligge also.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), II. 534. Vneselie thocht that he mycht ryde or go,… Than vp he rais rycht fraklie on his feit.
1600. Hakluyt, Voy., III. 54. It was … counted a place very hardly and vneasily to be inhabited for the great colde.
† b. Not in any easy or simple manner; with difficulty or trouble. Obs.
1600. E. Blount, trans. Conestaggio, 232. Where (although vneasily) … they might imbarke and descend.
1669. Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., A. 4. I might haply appear … monstrous to the eye of the World, and uneasily escape submersion.
1725. Sloane, Jamaica, II. 17. They are uneasily kept from apes and squirrels.
2. In an uneasy or uncomfortable manner; in such a way as to cause discomfort.
In older use (a) of physical uneasiness.
(a) 1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XIV. 232. He goth to cold beddynge, And his heued vn-heled vn-esiliche I-wrye.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 38. Þai slepe vnesely: þai ar made heuy als wele in mynde as in body.
1550. Thomas, Ital. Dict., Distretto, straictly or vneasilie.
1621. J. Taylor (Water P.), Sir G. Nonsence, Wks. (1630), Aa 1 b. Resting vneasily on a banke of Sicamores.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), I. 211. Concentrated jellies … sit more uneasily on a weak stomach, than meat … in a solid form.
(b) 1863. Mrs. Oliphant, Salem Chapel, iv. 30. Mr. Vincent stool uneasily at a corner when he was brought into the apartment.
1887. Miss Betham-Edwards, Next of Kin Wanted, II. xi. 140. He … hemmed and ha’d uneasily.
† 3. Without ease; awkwardly. Obs.–0
1611. Cotgr., Inhabilement,… vnweldily, vneasily, vnhandsomely.
