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44 cow’s or litter in the stall. See $1$,, and $1$,

bismer [bɩsmər],, steelyard; wooden lever-balance; rough scale for weighing large articles (30 to 40 lbs.). bismari,, steelyard. ,

bisnakk [bɩs·nak·, bɩz·nak·], , to be busy with something without really doing or making anything definite with it, to be occupied with useless trifles; to b. aboot a ting; rather  an extended form of bisna,, inter alia, to tumble about; lay about one; make fun; also: to do something tentatively (R.).

bisper [bɩspər],, sea-term (tabu-name) for mouse.  the same word as bispur,, a tramp; knave; a corruption (spisbur > bispur) from spitzbube. is consequently of foreign — not Norn —, but is, however, , a form of the word.

b. bio! bia (bya),, and bissa (byssa),, to lull.
 * biss [bɩs(s)],, lullaby! b.

bist [bɩst, bəst],, partly bad characteristics; bad disposition, partly a tendency to anger and bad temper, a b.; der’r [‘there is’] a b. in him. Partly = $n$, . the word burst, , bristle,  “bjoa bust”, to bid defiance (R.). See under , , and.

bist,, see ,

farm; b) collection of farms. Now quite as common noun, but it appears as the second part of  in a great number of names for farms and villages, so that the meaning of the word is still understood, : Brebister, Brettabister, Evrabister, Fladabister, Kirkabister, Krossbister, Simbister, Utrabister — see Shetl. Stedn. p. 80. In  old deeds  written as “buster”. In two names in the form [bosta]: Muklebusta [moklə-] and Litlebusta [lɩtlə-] ; Shetl. Stedn. p. 80. —  bólstaðr,, domicile; farm, as the second part in place-names, is often shortened to “bost, bust”.
 * bister [bɩstər, bestər],, a) dwelling;

bit$1$ [bɩt],, a bit of something taken in the morning before breakfast proper, mornin-b. bit(i) and bit. For the application of the word in  ábit,, a bit of something taken in the morning before breakfast, aabit(e),, bitaa, , and árbiti, (Gísl.), breakfast. See ,

bit$1$ [bɩt],, sheep-mark; small (semicircular or triangular) piece cut out of the side of a sheep’s ear; ; almost = 3. *biti; biti,, sheep-mark; small piece, cut out of a sheep’s ear.

bit [bit, bi̇̄t],, to fix (small lengths of line of hemp or of horse-hair, see, ) to the end of a long-line, to a (on long-line: another smaller line, attached to the long-line), to b. de line, de  (the long-line in its whole length). *bita,, to attach “bitar” (pieces)., , however, approaches beit (beet), , to add to; mend; repair; “ de line”, may be heard in the sense of to repair the line, and must here be regarded as beit.

bite,, is in form bite, but sometimes it is used differently from this word, and corresponding to bíta; thus, in sense of: a) to eat; graze, of cattle ( , , and, ); b) to cut, of cutting implements, a knife, scythe, axe: to b. weel [‘well’] or ill. bíta,, to bite; eat; graze; cut with the edge; shear,

bitel [bitəl, bɩtəl (bətəl)] and botel [bȯtəl (bətəl)],, large tooth, :