n see Thurneysen, Mélanges ... à H. Pedersen, Acta Jutlandica ix 1.301 - 302 . pitch: b.¤ gl. pix, Sg. 68b6 . bī a pice, vel a pino lignum , O'Mulc. 145. a dluthath . . . / do bii is do bitomain, SR 2446. doberaíd b.¤ leaghtha na cluassaibh arna cluindís ín ceol eter, BB 19a28 . coire umaide do linad ho bii ┐ ho luaide, PH 1264. iter aol is b.¤ is bitamain ┐ talmain (materials in Nimrod's tower), Auraic. 2581. Of pitch-pine: ochtach? a bi a tulca, Laws iv 150.4 Comm. bigh `glue or Birdlime', Eg. Gl. 724. As abusive epithet: a bí ar burd ardáin `you pitch on the rim of a goblet´ EIS 148 § 41 .

n (= Lat. finit < fīnīre) end, extremity ; the Lat. word used in Mid. Ir. didactic texts to denote end of a subject or section, opp. to incipit used at the beginning, e.g. fínít conclusion IT iii 66.27 . fínít dona debidib, 69z . finit dona díanaib (dechnadaib), 73.5 ; 78.7 ; hence by later writers used as a noun: grās Dé is na thós atámuid, ni ránuic sé fós finid, Carswell 246 . go riacht tusa go fínit a bhforusa RIA 23 L 17, 148b . ó finit píce go bóidcin point of a pike Dánta P. Feiritéir 104 .

ind sai caém canoine, conidh iarmaisi an maith, Laws iv 356.9 . iarbhais transltd. ` valuables ,' GJ ii 271b6 . do goid ... mórán iarmhis as a chúil-tigh | píce, milleóg, agus dornóg agus súiste, Seán Clárach 1308 . Cf. iarmhais `wealth,' etc., `a relict or remainder,' Dinneen.

n f. (Lat. pix, pic-em) pitch, tar : in picc, gl. pix, RC ix 243.5 . airbrunni na liburni . . . árna níamdubad di phicc, LL 235b29 ( TTr. 1390 ). ni chuirid pic forro, Marco P. 145 (of caulking boats). do chuimlettar da ccenglaibh . . . pic ┐ róisin, BNnÉ 52 § 44 . a gclaochlódh i bpic (= in picem), TSh. 6725 . picc, Rosa Angl. 118.3 . imat crann giúaiss . . . dia ttair[rng]ther pic (i.e. resin), Fl. Earls 84.28 . do loguibh pice talmhuidhe slime-pits, Gen. xiv 10 . As name of a plant : pic gregach, gl. col[o]fuinia (= colophonia), ACL i 327.58 .

n f. (AN loan-word, Risk 605 ) a pole or pike : meid . . . do picidhip poles, Fl. Earls 58.10 . forccomh . . . do phíce pike (weapon), AFM vi 2114.24 . co n-ailtnibh . . . et picibh accus crománaibh, Aisl. Tond. 102.1 . lucht pícedh pike-men , Rel. Celt. ii 188.25 .