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1 tign
f. state, highness, honour.* * *f. the state of being high-born, highness; taka af honum (the earl) tignina, Eg. 271; með mikilli tign ok virðingu, Fms. xi. 88; eptir tign verðleiks, Hom. 29; kyns tign, birth, rank, Greg. 64; fyrir tignar sakir várrar (of a king), Nj. 6; tign þín, your highness, 655 xxviii. 2; há-tign, majesty, (mod.)COMPDS: tignarbragð, tignardregill, tignarklæði, tignarkóróna, tignarlauss, tignarmaðr, tignarmark, tignarnafn, tignarskrúð, tignarstóll, tignarsvipr, tignarsæti. -
2 HÆÐ
f.1) height; hann hljóp meirr en h. sína, he could leap more his own height;2) height, eminence, hill (gengu þeir upp á h. nökkura).* * *f. [Ulf. hauiþa = υψος and τα υψηλά; A. S. heahðo; Engl. height; Dan. höjde; Germ. höhe; Swed. höjd]:—height; hlaupa hæð sína, Nj. 29; hæð trjánna, Stj. 74; breidd, lengd, þykt, hæð, Alg. 372, passim; manns-hæð, a man’s height; fjalis-hæð: of hair = lengd, Fms. x. 177, etc.2. a height, hill; hæðir þær er nú heita Hallbjarnar-vörður, Landn. 152; þeir fóru á hæðina, í ena syðri hæðina, því eru þrjár vörður á þeirri hæðinni, 153; sat Ljótr á hæð einni, 147; gengu þeir upp á hæð nokkura, Nj. 267; dalr ok hæð, Fms. ix. 490; hæðir eða haugar, Ó. H. 67; er þeir ganga ofan ór hæð, Stj. 444; skaltú ganga upp á hæð með mér, 443; hólar, hæðir, Núm. 2. 100; leiti né hæðir, Grág. i. 433.β. a top, summit, Stj. 66; í hæð borgarinnar: of the heaven, Hom. 90; hæðir himna, Hólabók; Faðir á himna hæð, id.; níu eru himnar á hæð talðir, Edda (Gl.); hæða blót, fórnfæring, göfgan, hof, sacrifice, worship, a temple on the high places, Stj. 635, 640, 641.II. metaph. highness, shrill tone, of the voice, Skálda 175; tala í hæð eða í leynd, to speak aloud or secretly, Sks. 365.2. amount, of price; kaupa með sama hæð, Dipl. v. 21; upp-hæð, amount: highness, exaltation, Hom., Mar. -
3 völdugleikr
m. power, authority; as a title, yðvarr völdugleikr, your highness.* * *m. power, authority, Stj. 83 (v. l.), 298.2. as a title; yðar v., your highness, Mar. -
4 göfug-leikr
(-ki), m. worshipfulness, Fms. i. 295, x. 280: highness, 310. -
5 tignar-svipr
m. an air of highness, royal countenance, Fas. ii. 475. -
6 göfugleikr
m. worshipfullness, highness. -
7 háleikr
m. highness.
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