HINDRA
sagnorð
að, [A. S. hinderjan; Engl. hinder; Germ. hindern; Dan. hindra; Swed. hindra]
I. prop. to keep behind, hinder, Stj. 138; h. eðr tálma, Dipl. i. 4, Bs. i. 689.
II. pass. to be impeded, Fms. vii. 144, xi. 423.
2. to halt, loiter, Stj. 172, Mar.: to go astray, to be wrong, Fbr. 78 new Ed., Bs. i. 820: to lose time, loiter about a thing, meira mun nú annat til framkvaemdar en hindrask eptir þessu, Sturl. iii. 157; cp. hindrvitni below.