a. Obs. [UN-1 7.]
1. Of age: Impotent; = UNWIELDY a. 1 c. rare–1.
1567. Golding, Ovid’s Met., VII. 85. From dull vnwieldsome age to youth he backward drew.
2. Unwieldy.
1579–80. North, Plutarch (1595), 748. Alexander … perceiuing that his armie was very heauy and vnwildsom to remoue, for the … spoiles they had with them.
1601. Sir W. Cornwallis, Disc. Seneca (1631), 38. Like prisoners … debarred exercise, fat, and unwieldsome.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 138. Body being a stour unweildsom thing,… it cannot stir without asking another bodies leave to crowd by.
