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a point, spear-point. Applied to a glance of the eye : le rinn ruisg a aigéininntleachda, 4625. [Cf. ro chuireas rinn mo rosg agus mo radhairc ionnadsa, Oss. Soc., iii, 56 ; rinn mo dhearc, DG, 119 y ; reanna mo dhearc ag dul trinn, ib. 28. Further ní bhfuil mo rosg go ríonnamhail (leg. ri-) radharcach am cheann, Cath Mhuighe Léana (ed. O’Curry), 114. As reanna and rionnamhail suggest, there has been some confusion between rinn and the cognate word rionn, star. Possibly rinn ruisg may have been originally ri(o)nd ruisc, ' star (i.e. light) of the eye.’]

Desiderius, otherwise called Sgáthán an Chrábhaidh. Author: Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire. Editor: Thomas F. O’Rahilly.

  1. (41, 149), r. áigh 2701 n; rosg -ghlan 2183 n.
  2. star&c. orghráin na n-airdreann, 3354.

The Book of O'Hara: Leabhar Í Eadhra. Editor: Lambert McKenna S.J.

f., point, sharpness, 2902 (of reason); climax, intensity (of struggle), 5743; line of battle, ‘aciem,’ 7061

Trí Bior-Ghaoithe an Bháis: The Three Shafts of Death. Author: Geoffrey Keating. Editor: Osborn Bergin.