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unwieldy (iou)



unwieldy adjective. . LME.
[from UN-1 + WIELDY.]
(Of a person, the body, etc.) lacking strength, too weak or feeble; infirm; (of age etc.) characterized or attended by weakness or infirmity. LME-L17.
T. Fuller The weilding of his sword hath not made him unweildie to do any Other work. Dryden With'ring time the taste destroyes With sickness and unwieldy years.
Indisposed to submit to guidance or command; restive, recalcitrant. E16.
Of a person or animal: moving ungracefully or with difficulty; lacking litheness or flexibility; awkward, clumsy. M16.
A. Brookner She took a bath, feeling as unwieldy as an invalid.
b. Characterized by clumsy massiveness or awkward shape. L16.
W. Hogarth Elephants and whales please us with their unwieldy greatness.
c. Clumsily or awkwardly expressed or performed. M17.
J. Thomson The broad Monsters..flounce, and tumble in unwieldy joy.
Difficult to wield, control, or manage, esp. owing to size, shape, or weight; unmanageable. M16.
H. Lawrence The weapon would be too heavy, to unweildy for us to use. R. P. Jhabvala Our committee..should not be so large as to be unwieldy. Publishers Weekly An unwieldly patchwork of Other books' chapters. fig.: D. J. Enright Much of his verse is laboured and unwieldy.
unwieldily adverb clumsily, awkwardly E17.

melody (iou)



melody noun & verb. ME.
[Old & mod. French melodie from late Latin melodia from Greek meloidia singing, choral song, from meloidos musical, from melos song, Music + oide ODE: see -Y3.]
A. noun.
Sweet Music, either vocal or instrumental; beautiful arrangement of musical sounds; tunefulness. ME.
Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream Philomel with melody, Sing in our sweet lullaby. Shelley Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing.
A song or Other musical performance. ME-M16.
a. A series of single notes arranged in musically expressive succession; an air. E17.
Day Lewis From childhood I could pick up a melody by ear. S. Rushdie A glade filled with the gentle melodies of song-birds.
b. A poem, song, etc., written to be sung to a particular arrangement of single notes in expressive succession. E19.
W. Carleton The touching and inimitable Melodies of my countryman Thomas Moore.
c. The principal part in a harmonized piece of Music. L19.
W. S. Rockstro Arrangements with the melody, as usual, in the Tenor.
Music. (The branch of Music that deals with) the arrangement of single notes in expressive succession. Cf. HARMONY 3. E18.
F. Burney Melody and Harmony..had been cultivated for the use of the church.
b. verb intrans. Make melody; sing. rare. L16.