lína
nafnorðkvenkyn
u, a line, and as a term, the bowline, (Gl.), bóglína: a rope, hann tók glófana, beltið ok knífinn ok línu mjófa, … eptir þat fór hann í festina ok lét línuna draga sik af berginu undir fossinn, 8. Norsemen mostly used ropes of walrus skin (svörðr), but ropes of flax are also mentioned; meðan strengr ok lína brestr eigi, (in a verse).
2. mathem. a line, 472, 474; Miðjarðar-lína and Lína = the Line, Equator, : a line in a book or writing (), skrifa línu-skakkt, to write the lines unevenly.II. lín, a head-dress; Hlín línu, a lady, Kormak; línu jörð, the earth of the lín = the head, v. 200 (in a verse); laut und línu, lysti at kyssa, 27.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- naut.nautical.
- cp.compare.
- mod.modern.
- poët.poetically.
- COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Gullþ.Gull-Þóris saga. (D. II.)
- Orkn.Orkneyinga saga. (E. II.)
- Rb.Rímbegla. (H. III.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Þkv.Þryms-kviða. (A. I.)