a. Obs. exc. Sc. dial. [UN-1 4, 7. Cf. WFris. on-, ûnrestich, MDu. onrustich (Du. onrustig), MLG. unrust-, unrostich.] Unquiet; full of unrest.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, cxl. 10. Kepe me fra lettyngis of vnristy men.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, V. 1355. I dar not pleyne more, But humbely Yow wryte ich myne vnresty sorwes sore.
c. 1412. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 116. Boote fonde I non In myn vnresty bed lenger to lye.
a. 1500[?]. Lydgates Ballad, in Thynne, Chaucer (1530), 374/2. Unto vnresty bothe rest and remedye Fruteful to al tho that in her assye.
1606. S. Gardiner, Bk. Angling, 137. Worldly cares maketh a man very vnrestie with himself.