An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 756
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 756
Isl. _skecke_, dispar facio.
_To_ SKAIL, SKAILL, SKALE, _v. a._
1. To disperse.
_Wyntown._
2. To dismiss, S.
_Acts Ja. III._
_To skail the byke_, to disperse an a.s.sembly, S.
3. To diffuse; applied to rumours.
_Doug._
4. To scatter, applied to the mind.
_Wyntown._
5. To spill, to shed, S.
6. To unrip, S. B.
_Ross._
7. _To skale doun_, to pour out.
_Doug._
8. _To skale doun_, to dishevel.
_Doug._
9. _To skail house_, to disfurnish.
_Rutherford._
10. _To skale a rig_, to plough ground so as to make it fall away from the crown of the ridge, S.
11. _To skale a sege_, to raise a siege.
_Poems 16th Cent._
12. _To skail a proclamation_, to recall it.
_Balfour._
13. _To skail a gun_, to empty it, S.
Su. G. Isl. _skil-ia_, separare; Gael. _scaoil-am_, id.
_To_ ~Skail~, ~Skale~, ~Scale~, _v. n._
1. To part one from another.
_Barbour._
Isl. _skil-iast_, unus ab altero recedere.
2. To be diffused.
_Wallace._
~Skail~, ~Scail~, _s._
1. A dispersion, S.
2. A scattered party.
_Barbour._
~Skailin~, ~Scailin~, _s._ Dispersion, S.
_J. Nicol._
~Skail-wind~, _s._ That which causes dispersion, S.
_M. Bruce._
SKAILDRAIK, SKELDRAKE, _s._ The shieldrake.
_Acts Ja. VI._
SKAILLIE, SKAILYIE, _s._ Blue slate. S. B.
_Acts Ja. VI._
Belg. _schalie_, id. Moes. G. _skal-jos_, tiles.
~Skillie pen~, a pencil of soft slate, S.
_To_ SKAIR, _v. n._