geiga

geiga
(að), v. to take a wrong direction; eigi veit, hvar úskytja ör geigar, none can tell where a shaft ill-shol may stray to.
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að, to take a wrong direction, to rove at random, of a bolt or the like; ok geigaði á fluginu, Grett. 124; hann skaut tveimr örum eðr þremr ok geigaði þat allt, Sturl. ii. 135; eigi veit hvar óskytja ör geigar, none can tell where a shaft ill-shot may stray to, Fms. vii. 262, Fas. ii. 358, (a saying.)
2. láta augun g., to look askance, Hom. (St.)

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