Unfirm, (three times unfírm, once únfirm before the subst.) not strongly fixed, or loosened: “all the sway of earth shakes like a thing u.” Caes. I, 3, 4. “loose, u. with digging up of graves,” Rom. V, 3, 6. In a moral sense, == inconstant: “our fancies are more giddy and u.” Tw. II, 4, 34. == weak: “so is the u. king in three divided,” H4B I, 3, 73.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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