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-fullr, a. = -gjarn;
-fýst, f. love of combat;
-gjarn, a. eager for combat;
-guð, m. god of battle
-gyðja, f. goddess of battle;
-laust, adv. without battle;
-list, f. art of war;
-lykt, f. the close of a battle;
-maðr, m. warrior;
-stef. n., -stefna, f. a time fixed for a battle.
bardagi, m. (1) beating, thrashing; (2) fight, battle (heyja, eiga bardaga við e-n) (3) calamity, scourge.
barð-hvalr, m. a sort of whale.
barði, m. a sort of ship, 'ram.'
barð-mikill, a. with a great 'barð' (3).
barir, f. pl. = barar (rare).
barka-kýli, n. Adam's apple.
barki, m. windpipe, weazand.
barki, m. a sort of small boat, launch.
bark-lauss, a. without bark (börkr).
barlak, n. barley, = bygg.
barmi, m. poet., brother.
barmr, m. brim, rim (of a vessel or a steel cap).
barm-tog, n. a rope for hauling the nets ashore.
barn, n. (1) bairn, child; vera með barni, to be with child; ganga með barni, to go with child; barns hafandi or hafandi at barni, with child, pregnant; frá blautu barni, from one's tender years; (2) = mannsbarn; hvert b., every man, every living soul.
barna (að), v. to get with child.
barna-börn, n. pl. grandchildren;
-eldi, n. procreation of children;
-fœri, n. in the phrase, ekki -fœri, no task for children;
-gaman, n. child's play ;
-karl, m. children's friend.
barn-aldr, m. = barnsaldr.
barna-leikr, m. child's play.
barn-alinn, pp. native; -alinn á Islandi, a native of lceland.
barna-mál, n. childish affair; gera e-t at -málum, to treat as a trifle, trifle with;
-mesba, f. Holy Innocents' Day;
-skap, n. childish temper; hafa ekki -skap, to be no baby;
-vipr, n. childish trifles, gewgaws;
-þáttr, m. the section of law concerning infants.
barn-beri, a. with child, pregnant;
-burðr, m. childbirth;
-bærr, a. capable of bearing children, opp. to 'úbyrja' ;
-dómr, m. childhood;
-eign, f. (1) getting or having children; (2) children, family (furðu ilia -eign gat Loki);
-eskja. f. childhood, = barnœska;
-faðir, m. a childs alleged father;
-fóstr, n. fostering of a child (a kind of adoption in olden times) ; bjóða e-m -fóstr, to offer to do this for another man;
-fóstra, f. foster-mother;
-fóstri, m. foster-father;
-fúlga, f. pay for the maintenance of a child;
-fœddr, pp.= -alinn ; borinn ok -fœddr, born and bred;
-fœði, n. native place, birthplace (eiga -fœði e-s staðar);
-getnaðr, m. (1) procreation of children ; (2) pregnancy (hón hafði fengit -getnað af þeirra samvistu);
-gœlur, f. pl. nursery songs, lullabies.
barningr, m. thrashing, see 'lamabarningr'.
barn-lauss, a. childless;
-leikr, m. = barnaleikr;
-leysi, n. childlessness
-ligr, a. childish, childlike.
barns-aldr, m. (time of) childhood (nýkominn af -aldri);
-bein, n., in the phrase, frá (or af) blautu -beini, from childhood;
-full, a. f. pregnant;
-fylgja, f. the after-birth, = eptirburðr;
-grátr, m. the crying of a baby;
-húfa, f. child's cap.
barn-skikkja, f. childs cloak;
-skírn, f. christening of an infant;
-skirnar-orð, n. pl. words used in christening, baptismal formula.
barn-sótt, f. pains, throes of childbirth (taka -sótt);
-sæll, a. fortunate in one's children;
-sæng, f. childbed;
-teitr, a. glad as a child;
-ungr, a. very young, youthful;
-úmagi, m., -úmegð, f. (see these words) ; -œska, f. childhood (bráð er barnœska).
barr, n. (1) acicular leaves, needles of the fir or pine (wrongly applied Snorri, who speaks of the 'barr' of the ash (2) barley.
barr-axlaðr, a. high-shouldered, with sharp, prominent shoulder bones,
-haddaðr, a. poet., barley-haired (of the earth).
Barreyskr, a. from Barra (in the Hebrides).

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