kría

u, f. [this word does not occur in old writers, and may be derived from Swed. kry, from the brisk and lively temper of this bird]:—a sea-bird, the tern, Lat. sterna; from this restless and noisy bird comes the saying, vera einsog kriá á steini, or, einsog kría verpi, to be restless and unsteady. kríu-egg, n. the egg of a k. For an account of this bird, which abounds in Icel., see Eggert Itin. ch. 675; and for the curious lawsuit called Kríu-mál, see Espol. Árb. 1692, 1693.