a. (UN-1 7.)
1566. Drant, Horace, Med. Morall, A ij. When unnimble age Hath refte them of their warke.
1607. Markham, Cavel., II. 48. A horse that is sloathfull or vnnimble in turning.
1681. Rycaut, trans. Gracian’s Critick, 76. These … sluggishly moved their unnimble legs.
1703. Thoresby, Lett. to Ray (E.D.S.). Clunter, an unnimble stumbler.
Hence Unnimbleness.
1607. Markham, Cavel., II. 177. Some horses,… out of vnnimblenesse,… are … more apt to turne vpon one hand then vpon another.
