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* * *(að), v.1) to soften, mitigate;2) to soothe, alleviate (linit harmi mínum); impers., e-u linar, it abates (við átak hans linat þegar sóttinni);3) l. til, to give way;4) refl., linast, to be softened, give way (þá linuðust hugir þeirra).* * *að, [Dan. lindre; see linr], to soften, mitigate; þat linar saur, Pr. 473.2. metaph. to alleviate; Guð linaði þeirra eymðir, Stj.:—with dat., lina þvílíkum þunga, Dipl. ii. 14; lina atsókninni, Stj. 604; unit harmi mínum, Karl. 215; lina til, to give way, Fms. vi. 28:—to abate, Bs. ii. 49 (of the wind).II. impers. it abates; þá er líttat linaði élinu, Fms. xi. 136; við átak hans linar þegar sóttinni, Fb. ii. 145; at nokkut skyldi lina augna-verkinum, Bs. i. 317.III. reflex. to be softened, give way; þá linuðusk hugir þeirra, Fms. ii. 36, Pr. 471, Rb. 440, Sturl. iii. 19. -
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* * *(að), v.1) to soften, mitigate;2) to soothe, alleviate (linit harmi mínum); impers., e-u linar, it abates (við átak hans linat þegar sóttinni);3) l. til, to give way;4) refl., linast, to be softened, give way (þá linuðust hugir þeirra).* * *u, f. a line, and as a naut. term, the bowline, Edda (Gl.), cp. 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, Gullþ. 8. Norsemen mostly used ropes of walrus skin (svörðr), but ropes of flax are also mentioned; meðan strengr ok lína brestr eigi, Orkn. (in a verse).2. mathem. a line, Rb. 472, 474; Miðjarðar-lína and Lína = the Line, Equator, mod.: a line in a book or writing (mod.), skrifa línu-skakkt, to write the lines unevenly.II. lín, a head-dress; Hlín línu, poët. a lady, Kormak; línu jörð, the earth of the lín = the head, Fms. v. 200 (in a verse); laut und línu, lysti at kyssa, Þkv. 27.COMPDS: línuakkeri, línustrengr.
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