SNARR

SNARR
a.
1) swift (snarir vindar);
2) gallant, bold, smart;
3) keen (snör augu):
4) sharp, penetrating (s. til skynsemdar);
5) neut., snart, as adv. soon, quickly (rann hann at sem snarast).
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snör, snart, adj. [this word with its derivatives is akin to snúa, pret. snöri; Engl. snarl, of cord]:—prop. hard-twisted, of a string; snarr þáttr, hard-spun cord, Stor. (snar-þáttr, Lex. Poët.); þráðrinn er snarr: chiefly used,
II. metaph. swift, [A. S. snear]; snarir vindar, the swift winds, Hdl. 41; snör brögð, gallant deeds, Skv. i. 10: used as an epithet to a wrestler, fighter, snar glímu-maðr.
2. keen; snör augu, keen, flashing eyes, Fas. i. 200; augu snör, Þiðr. 178; snart auga-bragð, Fms. ii. 174: adverbially, smartly, rann hann at sem snarast, Eg. 532; berjask snart ok hraustliga, Ld. 222.
III. temp. soon, Dan. snart; kom aptr snart, Fms. xi. 266: in poët. compds, geð-s., böð-s., fólk-s.

An Icelandic-English dictionary. . 1874.

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