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194 fårkenmat,, toothsome morsel.

a) the lawman’s salary for the Thing circuits; b) taxes constituting the lawman’s salary; see *, lawman, Later on (after the discontinuance of the lawman’s office), a name for various kinds of taxes, levied by the feudal lord of Shetland in former times. In Balfour’s Glossary “” is recorded with the explanation: “the Lawman’s salary for the Thing circuits; afterwards charged by the Donatary, first against the Crown, and again against the parishes on various pretexts, sometimes of Odal usage, sometimes of feudal claim”. — fararkaup, , payment for a journey, means here: “Þingfararkaup”, a salary or payment for Thing circuit.
 * forkop,, ( to Balfour):

forlegen, forlegin [fɔrlē·gən, fårlē·gən, -lē$ə$·gɩn],, thoroughly exhausted; weakened. and  [fɔrlē·gən, får-]; [fårlē·gən, -lē$ə$·gɩn]. From, , is reported a form or [fəlē·gəd] and from : [fərlō$w$·dɩn]. — firilagstur, of “leggjast firi”, to become weakened, exhausted. “leggjask fyrir” is handed down in sense of to lose courage; give up hope. The anglicised “laid afore” is now more used in than.

forrum [fōrrūm],, fore-hold in a boat. fyrirrúm,, fore-hold in a ship; fyrerom,, = framrom: fore-hold in a boat.

fors [fɔ‘rs, få‘rs],, a waterfall; mostly in the : “de f. o’ de burn”‘, [sic] the waterfall in the burn; is here misinterpreted as force. Now mostly as a place-name: “de ” and “(de) [fɔ‘rsɩn, fɔ‘rsən]”. The latter form, containing the old [ -inn: forsinn], is noted down in and  (Sandwick). See under “*o”,  — fors (foss),, a waterfall.

fors [fɔ‘rs],, in fishing, angling: to spit out chewed limpets (patella) on the water to allure the fish; f. awaa [‘away’]! ; to f. de , to allure coalfish by spitting out chewed limpets. ., . — from  (*) by metathesis of r; see further, , , used in same sense as . —  ,

forsek, forsi,, see ,

snell on a fishing-line, the part between the sinker and the lower piece, the so-called, with the hook. — forsendi,,  forsynd, , a snell, the lower part of a fishing-line; forsenda,, a deep-sea lead on a fishing-line. — ,
 * forsend [(fɔ‘rsən) fȯ‘rsən],, a

forsin [fɔ‘rsɩn]-bag,, a boat-fisherman’s bag, containing fittings for the fishing-line andarticles necessary for mending.  “”, a bag for keeping snells; see *,

†forsintaps [fo‘r··sɩntaps·, få‘r··sɩn-], , 1) cabbage-leaves cut off for the cattle, also called “kail- [stūins]”. (Vidlin). 2*) thin barley-cakes, reported in the phrase: “f. and (whey mixed with curd)”; Ube [ø̄b], In the last given sense the word was certainly also used in : a. — The first part,, can in both senses given be explained from fruse,, a spout; knot; lump; wooden peg; flap; the metathesis ,, from , ; see above, “tap” may partly be and tapp, wooden peg, partly the word “top”, in which o in has changed to a. — [fɔ‘rs, få‘rs],, to pluck the coarser hairs away from the finer
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