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smætta, mod. smækka, smáttka, Sks. 105 new Ed. v.l. [smár] :-- to grow small; smækka tekr nú smíði gátu, Gsp., passim in mod. usage; smættisk þá með hans hyski, sundr-þykkjask ok smættask, ... smættask allar ættir, Sks. 77 new Ed.
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SPENI, a, m. [A.S. spana], a teat, dug, esp. of animals: grís er drukkit hafði spenann, Fs. 71; fjórar mjólkár runnu ór spenum hennar, Edda; ýla þegar er þeir missa mjólkr ór þurrum spenum, Al. 31; þat var gyltr ok spenar á, Fms. vi. 216; fjórir hanga spenar, Gsp.; þat skrímsl hefir á brjósti sér stóra spena, Sks. 169; hann kom hverju lambi á spenann, Od. ix. 245. spena-barn, n. a sucking child, Fas. ii. 328.
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STÝFA, ð, [stúfr], to cut off, chop off, curtail, Jb. 274; af stýfa, Stj. 379; s. af tungunni, Hom. 115; s. höfuð af e-m, Al. 53; því berr hann stýfðan stert, a docked tail, Gsp. II. part. stýft, a metrical term, apocopated; stýfð vísu-orð, Edda (Ht.) 133. 2. a mark on a sheep's ear, made by cutting the top off (stýft hægra).
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tefill, m. a hinderer; orða-tefill, Fas. i. 533, Gsp. 1.
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tinna, u, f. a flint; taka eld með tinnu, Fms. viii. 56; tiunu-grjót, a flint-stone, Gsp.: freq. in mod. usage, hrafn-tinna (q.v.), 'raven-flint,'
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TOG, n. a 'tow,' rope, line; flota ok tog í bæði lönd, Gþl. 410; hafi sá varp er fyrr renndi togum sínum, of an angler's line, 426; akkeri með digru togi, Gsp. 2. a cord by which another is led; hafa hest í togi, to have a horse in tow, a led-horse, Grág. i. 441, Fbr. 77; þinn hestr skal mér nú í togi vera, MS. 4. 16; hann hélt höndunum um togit (leading a calf), Fms. vi. 368: the phrase, svá eru lög sem hafa tog, law is just as it is stretched, i.e. might goes for right. II. goat's hair, or in Icel. the long coarse flax-like hair in the wool of mountain-sheep; the English wool merchants call it 'kemp,' see Þjóðólfr, 12th of June, 1872, p. 120.
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upp-hefill, m. [Germ. hebel], an upheaver, lever; orða u., Gsp.
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urinn,
part.
[is
a
mod.
participle
(16th
century,
see
urningr
below)
formed
from
yrja,
urði,
urinn,
=
erja,
arði,
arinn,
cp.
erja
;
it
can
therefore
have
no
bearing
on
the
false
reading,
Gsp.,
Fas.
i.
475]
:--
rubbed,
scratched;
jörðin
er
öll
upp
urin,
the
crop
bitten
close
off,
as
if
shaven.
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spákonu, the husband of a wise woman, Kormak; lirla veri sínum, to sing lullaby for her husband, Fms. vi. 251 (in a verse); vör ok gröm at veri, jealousy for her husband, Ls. 54; frum-ver, one's wedded husband, Skv. 3. 59: in prose used in law phrases or sayings, svá er mörg við ver sinn vær at varla sér hón af honum nær, Skálda (Thórodd); til er hón kemr í vers hvílu, Grág. ii. 183; verr hennar, 89. 2. in plur. verar, men; þar er vágu verar, Ls. 46; firðar ok fírar ok verar heita landvarnar-menn, Edda 107; sleit vargr vera, Vsp.; vápn-dauða vera, Gm. 8, Sdm. 33; þú ert æ vísastr vera, Vþm. 55; vera týr, the lord of men, i.e. Odin, Gm. 3; verr peim vera enginn, none of men can ward them off, Gsp.; megut þeim varða verar, id. 3. in compds; ver-bróðir, ver-faðir, ver-fang, ver-gjarn, ver-lauss, ver-liðar, ver-öld, ver-sæll, ver-úlfr, ver-þjóð, qq.v., of which only veröld is a prose word, all the rest being poetical and obsolete. 4. plur. verjar; skip-verjar, shipmen; suffixed to pr. names of people, mostly of counties or small tribes, Man-verjar, the Manx-men, Fms. vii. (in a verse); Hvin-verjar, Odda-verjar, Gaul-verjar, Dal-verjar, Skarð-verjar, Sturl., Landn.; Vík-verjar, the men of the county Wík in Norway: Róm-verjar, the Romans: in mod. usage, Spán-verjar, the Spanish; Þjóð-verjar, the Germans: this was a freq. usage in old Teut. names, in Lat. rendered by -varii; it remains in the Engl. Cant-er-bury (A.S. Cant-wara) = the burgh of the men of Kent. II. in the inflex. -eri or -ari, see Gramm. p. xxxii, col. i. III. in pr. names, Ver-mundr, Rand-verr.
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vörð, f., pl. varðir and verðr, [Engl. ward], prop. a woman under tutelage, a wife; only in the allit. phrase, vörðr and verr, wife and husband, a wedded pair; eigut þær varðir vera, these women have no husbands, Gsp.; mik veiztu verða (i.e. varða, gen. pl.) ver-gjarnasta, Þkv, 13; þótt varðir vers (wedded women) fái sér hós eða hvars, Ls. 33; at ek þatki vannk er vörð (vörðr Ed.) né ver vinna knátti, I had no intercourse of wife and husband with him, i.e. no hjúskapar-far, Gkv. 3. 3; þá er Var ok Syn verðr (acc. pl.) at nefna, then are V. and S. the fairies to be named, Edda (Gl.)
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