a. Obs. exc. Sc. dial. [UN-1 4, 7. Cf. WFris. on-, ûnrestich, MDu. onrustich (Du. onrustig), MLG. unrust-, unrostich.] Unquiet; full of unrest.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, cxl. 10. Kepe me fra lettyngis of vnristy men.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Troylus, V. 1355. I dar not pleyne more, But humbely … Yow wryte ich myne vnresty sorwes sore.

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c. 1412.  Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 116. Boote fonde I non In myn vnresty bed lenger to lye.

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a. 1500[?].  Lydgate’s Ballad, in Thynne, Chaucer (1530), 374/2. Unto vnresty bothe rest and remedye Fruteful to al tho that in her assye.

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1606.  S. Gardiner, Bk. Angling, 137. Worldly cares maketh a man very vnrestie with himself.

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