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56 (blue-reek)? ( -mist = -reek).

blød [blød],, to bleed, blœða. Older form, gradually superseded by bleed,  — [blød],, blood, is, as regards the form, “bluid, blude”; the older form of the substantive is *, and is preserved in some .

blødfastin [blød·fas·tɩn], , absolutely fasting, “blood-fasting”.

blødfrind, -friend [blød·frend·, -frɩnd·],, kinsman. *blóð-frændi. Also (blood-friend).

blødin [blødɩn],, see.

blødsdrap, -drap [bløds·drap·], , drop of blood; he’s no [‘not’] a b. to me, he is no blood relation of mine. As a the word is = blóðsdropi. blóðdropi. In  “blodsdrope” = bloddrope (see R.).

blødsprung [blød·sproŋ·],, blood-shot; swollen, owing to a rush of blood. *blóð-sprengðr, from *blóð-sprengja, ; blod-sprengd, blóðsprongdur. The form - in has doubtless arisen under influence of sprung, of spring,

†bløv [blø̄v],, to perish; die; he destreen, he died yester-day; he is gaun [‘going’] to b.; generally of human beings, but sometimes also of animals: de horse . [blø̄vd], and, dead. The word is now used in a very wide sense, but doubtless once really denoted “to be lost, perish at sea”, like “bliva”, with which  must be connected; in the same sense and have “bliven, blijven” (to perish).

†bo [bō],, old fellow (contemptuous for a man), a auld [‘old’]. bo, booe, , a bug-bear or bogey; in a similar sense bo ( bo).

, in place-names most often = ba$2$, a sunken rock, : de [bȱ], a sunken rock at Foula; de  (Balta Isle, ); de  (Fedeland, ). Sometimes also as a name for small low-lying rocks on the sea-shore, fishing-rocks: de Nort’-, Mid- and Sooth [‘South’] (near Oddste, ), de  [bōəns] (Sund near Lerwick, ). *boðarnir,  Associated herewith is doubtless also buð [būð] in [bräi‘··tabūð·], fishing-rock near Sund (Lerwick, ): *bratti boði? boði, , a sunken rock; hidden shoal. See $1$,
 * bo$ə$ [bō, bȱ] and bod$1$ [bōd (bō$1$d)],

bod$2$ [bɔd, båd, bȯd, bɔ̇d],, a big, high wave, : a wave rising suddenly, groundswell immediately before it breaks on a sunken rock ; he mak’s (is makin’) a b. upo’ de, a groundswell, a breaker, is rising ; — also a big wave coming in towards the shore. The form “bɔ̇d” is recorded from bɔd, båd: and   boði,, a sunken rock or the sea breaking on a sunken rock. bode,, also an eddying and bubbling movement of the sea. $1$,

bod$3$ [bod],, message; offer; invitation. boð,, and bode, bod,, in the same sense.

bod$1$ [bɔd (bȯd), bɔ̇d],, of a wave, a groundswell immediately before it breaks on a sunken rock or shoal: to rise before breaking, de (the breaker)  or is. The word is used also in contrast to, , as denotes the rise (and fall) of a ground-swell without forming a foam-crest, while denotes the latter. From Papa Stoor the is noted down: “When a ba does no [‘not’] , but is  (till a face), den