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Bdrdachd Ghdidhlig
■pronn, 2962, pound; 2962,
pounded; Ir. pronnaim, I eat;
smash; Lat. prandium, a meal.
pronnadh, m., 586, 2890, pounding
(often of music played with the
fingers).
prosbaig, f., 2132, a spy-glass,
telescope; Eng. prospect,
prosmunn, m., 4381, incitement;
by-form of brosdadh; cf. bros-
luim, incitement, H.S.D.; E.
reads brosluinn.
prostan, m., 4928, a band; cf. Ir.
prosndn, a troop, company;
brosna, a faggot.
pudhar, m., 3842, 5505, harm,
scathe; Lat. pudor.
purp, m., 560, sense, intelligence;
Eng. purpose.
purpais, m., 5364, theme; Eng.
purpose.
rabhartach, 506, full of hilarious
exaggerated talk; ro and ber,
as in abair, say.
rabhd, f., 2489, idle talk,
me, rag, f., 2274, a rag; Eng.
rdcadal, m., 2883, screeching.
rag, 2336, r. mheirleach, an arrant
thief; cf. dearg mheirleach,
2489.
ragachadh, 107, act of stiffening
(with food); rag; root of Lat.
rig-eo.
r&itinn, 403, saying; rddh.
r&mh-br&ghad, m., 5029, the bow
oar, the oar next the prow of
the boat.
rannt, pi. ranntaidh, 5513, con¬
nections, allies; is mor gu’r
dith fear do rannt o’n dh’eug
thu—T. 70; dheanainn seanchas
mu’n ouairt duit Air do rannt-
ainibh farsaing—T. 85; (the
Munroes, Dunbars, &c., are
enumerated); Nis o sglthich mo
cheann Sior thuireadh do rannt
—T. 90; Gura farsaing do
ranntaibh Ri sheanchas ’s ri
:shloinne; Gur tu oighre an
lari Ilich, &c.—T. 93; rann, a
division-, compare Eng. parti-
rasgaich, f., 2808, ? vaunting;
rosg, a dithyrambic poem.
rathail, 1119, 4269, fortunate;
*rath-amhail.
reachdmhor, 3820, 4485, oommand-
ing, puissant; literally, law-
giving ; Ir. reachtmhdr, legis¬
lative ; reaehd, law; cognate
with Lat. rectum,
reamhar, 6911, thick, stout : uisge
r. trom tlath—G. 63; durdan r.
ro-shearbh—G. 292; lugail do
mheoir r. ruaidh—G. 292; Ir.
reamhar, thick, fat.
riiceil, m., 2957, a roaring: riie,
riidhbheartach, 4682, level of
deed, equable; oigfhear
bhios calma an uair as eiginn
da, Is r. da reir—W.R., 24.
reidhlean, m„ 1528, 1748, 5064,
6471, a small plain, a green;
Ir. riidhledn, a green for
games; reidh, even.
reilig, f., 3750, a burying ground;
bidh duil ri fear fairge, ach
cha bhi duil ri fear reilge;
Ir. reilig, a churchyard, church;
Lat. reliquiae. In Lewis still
reilig, as in Ir.
riis, f., 1826, a span; the dis¬
tance between the extremities
of the brdag and the liidag
when the fingers are at full
stretch; nine inches; gun bhith
fo na ghlun ach reis, a mark
of a good steer—Duan. 56.
rHteach, m., 460, a clearance;
6625, an arranging; Ir. riidh-
teach, a reconciliation, clearing
up; r&idh, clear.
reothairt, f., 89, the time of
spring tide; also rabhairt; Ir.
rabharta; ro and heir,
riadh, m., 5725, the interest on
money.
riagh, m., 192, a snare.