Of a person or animal. Disabled or impaired in any way; weak, infirm; paralysed; unable to move. Const. on, of (cf. 1c). Obsolete exc. archaic.

Affected by or suffering from paralysis; = paralysed, adj. Now rare.

Affected with palsy, palsied. Also figurative.

Of things: Bad (in various senses, chiefly physical); poor, sorry, ill-conditioned, ill-looking, worthless; hurtful. Of a part of the body…

Affected with palsy, paralysed. Also figurative: deprived of muscular energy or power of action; rendered impotent; tottering, trembling.

paralysed (as was supposed) as the result of being overrun by a shrew-mouse.

Of a part of the body: that has lost physical sensation; numb. Obsolete.

Affected with paralysis (literal and figurative); paralytic.

In early use: †weakened (obsolete). Later: of the nature of, relating to, or affected by paresis or general paresis.

Becoming palsied or paralysed. Obsolete.

= shrew-struck n.

= shrew-run n.