An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 761

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_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.

SKEW'D, _adj._ Acting like one deprived of reason, Perths.

V. ~Skaivie~.

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