ristill

shingles

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m.

1) ploughshare;

2) poet. gentlewoman (r. er sú kona, er sköruglynd er).

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m., dat. ristli, [rísta], a ploughshare, Stj. 386, Magn. 460.

II. qs. vristill, [akin to rist = vrist], poët. a gentlewoman, from the slenderness of form; ristill er sú kona er sköruglynd er, Edda, Rm. 22, Völs. R. 205.

2. the ‘twisted’ big end-gut in animals.

3. medic. shingles (Lat. cingulum), ringworm in its most severe form (zona herpetica), Fél. x. 29.