n. [Engl. shaggy is akin, but in the sense of the beard the word is peculiar to the Scandin. languages, which use barð (q. v.) in a different sense; Dan. skæg; Swed. skägg]:—a beard, prop. originally = shagginess, Þkv. 1, Rm. 15; honum óx eigi skegg, Nj. 30, Fms. ii. 59; stutt skegg ok snöggvan kaup, … jaðar-skegg, Sks. 288; kanpa ok skegg, K. Þ. K.; hón sér undir skegg Hagbarði, Korm. 12: phrases, Úlfarr vatt við skegginu, Eb. 164; skríða undir skegg e-m, to hide behind another’s beard, Fs. 31; konu skegg, a woman’s beard, Germ. Kaisers-bart, cp. Edda 19; höggva skeggi niðr, to bite the dust, Fms. xi. (in a verse); meðan upp heldr skeggi, as long as we can stand upright, Orkn. (in a verse); höggvask til skeggjum, to put beards together, Grett. (in a verse).

II. = barð (q. v.), the cutwater, beak, of a ship; var skegg á ofanverðu barðinu, Fms. ii. 310; flaugar-skegg.

III. in pr. names, Skeggi, Járn-skeggi, Skegg-broddi, Landn., Ó. H.; Skegg-bragi, Skegg-ávaldi or Ávaldi skegg, Fs.

B. COMPDS: skeggbarn, skeggbroddr, skeggbrúsi, skegghvítr, skeggkarl, skegglauss, skeggmaðr, skeggsíðr, skeggstaðr, skeggstæði.