. Add: I. slow, sluggish :-- Be lattre meltunge sumra metta, Lch. ii. 160, 9. Late lento, Wrt. Voc. ii. 49, 62. On óðre wísan sint tó manianne ðá ðe bióð tó late (pigri: cf. ðá sláwan 19), on óðre ðá ðe bióð tó hrade, Past. 281, 18. I a. where the matter in which slowness is shown is noted. (1) with gen., B. 1529: Dóm. 89 (in Dict.). (2) with prep., An. 46: Ll. Th. ii. 404, 20 (in Dict.). (3) with dat. infin., Past. 281, 6 : Lk. 24, 25 (in Dict.). (4) with clause, Bl. H. 43, 22 (in Dict.). II. delayed or deferred in time, late :-- Gif se biscop þá gýt lǽttra wǽre þ̵ hé inne eóde si adhuc episcopus tardius intrasset, Gr. D. 59, 18. III. advanced in point of time in the course of the day or night, late :-- Ðá seó lætre (lættre, v. l.) tíd weóx cum hora tardior excrevisset, Gr. D. 128, 12. Hí wǽron genýdde þ̵ hí for þǽre lættran tíde (tardiori hora) wunedon læng þonne hí sceoldon, 126, 26. Oð ðá lætran tíde, 24.