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bára

nafnorðkvenkyn
u, [berja?], a wave, billow, v. alda; as a rule bára denotes the smaller waves caused by the wind (on the surface of larger billows), alda the rollers or swell, ii. 82, i. 186, x. 324 (of a breaker = boði), 1. 7: the proverb, sigla milli skers ok báru, inter Scyllam et Charybdin, ii. 268, iii. 402; sjaldan er ein báran stök, there is seldom a single billow: of misfortune, Aesch. Prom. 1015 κακων τρικυμία, also i. 660.
β. of undulations or rough stripes on the surface of a thing, the crust of a cheese, 146; a scull, 769: báruskel, cardia testa cordata pectinata, a shell, Eggert p. 1010.
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Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
  • cp.compare.
  • metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
  • e. g.exempli gratia.
  • COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
  • Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
  • Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
  • Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
  • Gkv.Guðrúnar-kviða. (A. II.)
  • Fb.Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
  • Ísl. Þjóðs.Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur.
  • Fs.Forn-sögur. (D. II.)
  • Eg.Egils saga. (D. II.)
  • Itin.Itinerarium or Travels of Eggert Ólafsson, 1772.