An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 761

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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language



An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 761


_Burel._


~Skelpie-limmer~, _s._


An opprobrious term applied to a female, S.


_Burns._


SKELT, _part. pa._ Unript.


V. ~Skail~, _v._


_To_ SKELVE, _v. n._ To separate in _lamina_, S. B.


Su. G. _skaell-a_, Isl. _skel-iast_, in tenues laminas dissilire; _skil-ia_, separare.


~Skelve~, _s._ A thin slice, S. B.


Teut. _schelve_, segmen.


~Skelvy~, _adj._


1. Having various _lamina_, S. B.


_Minstr. Bord._


2. Shelvy, S.


_Burns._


SKEO, _s._ A hut for drying fish, Orkn.


Isl. Norw. _skia-r_, id. pergula siccatoria.


SKEP, SKEPPE, SCAPE, _s._


1. A bee-hive made of twisted straw, S. A.


_Hume._


2. Transferred to industry.


_Ferguson._


Su. G. _skaepp-a_, a seed-vessel; Gael. _sgeip_, a bee-hive.


SKER, perhaps, a rock.


_Lyndsay._


Isl. _skaer_, scopulus maris.


SKERRY, _s._


1. An insulated rock, Orkn.


_Barry._


2. A flat rock, over which the sea flows when the tide rises.


_Stat. Acc._


Isl. _skaer_, a rock, and _ey_, an island.


SKERTER, _s._ The sea-belt, a fucus, Orkn.


_Neill._


SKET. _Ful sket_, full hastily.


_Sir Tristrem._


A. S. _on scyte_, in praecipiti; Isl. _skiot-ur_, celer.


SKEW, SKEU, _s._ The oblique part of a gable, S.


V. ~Shach~.


_J. Nicol._


_To_ ~Skew~, _v. a._


1. To build in an oblique form, S.


2. To cover gables with sods, Tweedd.


SKEWD, _adj._ Acting like one deprived of reason, Perths.


V. ~Skaivie~.







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