1 deild
(deilþ, deilð), f.
2 deild
1. a deal, dole, share. Edda 147: fara at deildum, to be parcelled out. Orkn. 88, Ísl. ii. 337 (a portion of meat); göra d., to give a dole, N. G. L. i. 142; the phrase. fá illt ór deildum, to get a bad share, be worsted, Sighvat (in a verse).
3 deild
2. dealings; harðar deildir, hard dealings, Fbr. (in a verse); sannar deildir, just dealings, Lex. Poët.; ill-deildir, ill dealings; grip-deildir, dealings of a robber, robbery; skap-deild, temper.
4 deild
3. seldom used of fighting with weapons (N. G. L. i. 64), but freq. of a lawsuit (þing-deild), Nj. 138, 141, 86, 36, Eg. 738, Fms. vi. 361, viii. 268, Gþl. 475: the parliamentary phrase, leggja mál í deild, to ‘lay a case under division’ in court (cp. leggja mál í gørð), a phrase which recalls to mind the English parliamentary phrases ‘division’ and ‘divide.’ Sturl. i. 59; leggja mál til deildar, id., Laxd. 204 (MS., Ed. deilu).
5 deild
β. cp. also local names, Deildar-tunga, -hvammr, -hjalli, Landn., Sturl.
6 deild
γ. in Icel. a boundary river is often called Deild or Deildar-á, Deildar-lækr, etc.; or of other boundary places, Deildar-hvammr, etc.
7 deild
δ. metaph., í aðra d., þriðju d., etc., secondly, thirdly, etc., Stj. 9, 21.
8 deild
COMPDS: deildararfr, deildarlið, deildarmaðr.