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† tealt, a. Obs.
[OE. tealt adj. (whence tealtian, tealtrian, to be unsteady, shake, totter); app. not represented in the cognate languages]
Unsteady, insecure, shaky; fig. unreliable, precarious, uncertain. Hence † tealte adv., insecurely.
a1000Runic Poem xxi. (Gr.), ᵹif hi sculun neðan on nacan tealtum, and hi sæyða swiðe breᵹað. a1023Wulfstan Hom. xxx. (N.) 149 Swa tealte syndon eorðan welan. Ibid. l. 273 Hu læne and hu lyðre þis lif is,..hu tealt. c1315Shoreham i. 231 For ȝef þat water his kende lest, Þat cristning stant te tealte. |