a. Obs. [OE. unsláw (UN-1 7).] Not slow; active, quick, swift.
In Beowulf, 2564, the emendation unslaw has been suggested for the MS. reading unglaw.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xxv. 375. Hi sloʓon þa togædere unslawe mid wæpnum.
a. 1023. Wulfstan, Hom., x. (1883), 72. Se ðe wære full slaw, weorðe se unslaw to cyrican.
1382. Wyclif, Prov. vi. 11. If forsothe vnsloȝ thou shul be, shal come as a welle thi rip.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 908. The dragon … gird him agayne with a grym noyse: Mony slecynges vnslogh throughe hys slote yode.
1483. Cath. Angl., 343/2. Vn Slawe, vbi wyghte.
