An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 724
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 724
1. To slope, S.
2. To move obliquely, S.
_Douglas._
3. To hit obliquely, S.
_Knox._
4. Denoting immoral conduct.
_Semple._
Sw. _slant_, obliquus; _slint-a_, lapsare.
~Sclent~, ~Sklent~, _s._
1. Obliquity, S.
2. Acclivity, ascent, S.
_Ross._
~A-Sklent~, _adv._ Obliquely.
_Polwart._
~Sclentine Ways~, _adv._ Obliquely, S. B.
_Morison._
SCLAYS, _s._ A slice, S. B.
_Wyntown._
Germ. _schleiss-en_, rumpere.
Sc.l.i.tHERS, _s. pl._ Loop stones lying in great quant.i.ties on the side of a rock, or hill, S. A.
_J. Nicol._
Germ. _schlitz-en_, disjungere.
_To_ SCOB, _v. n._ To sew clumsily, S.
SCOB, _s._
1. A splint, S.
2. In pl. the ribs of a basket, Ang.
Teut. _schobbe_, squama.
_To_ ~Scob~ _a skepp_, to fix cross rods in a bee-hive, S.
SCOB, _s._ An instrument for scooping, Clydes.
SCOB-SEIBOW, _s._
1. An onion that is allowed to remain in the ground during winter, S.
2. The young shoot from an onion, of the second years growth, S.
SCOLL.
V. ~Skul~.
SCOLDER, _s._ The oyster-catcher, Orkn.
_Barry._
SCOMER, SKOMER, _s._ A smell-feast.
Belg. _schuymer_, id.
_Dunbar._
_To_ SCOMFICE, SCONFICE, _v. a._
1. To suffocate, S.
_Ross._
2. _v. n._ To be stifled, S.
_Ibid._
Ital. _sconfigg-ere_, to discomfit.