skeandhu (sken do)

[ Young Durward drew from his pouch that most nece ary implement of a Highlander or woodsman, the trusty skene dhu, and cut the rope asunder. skeart, p. a. A dialectal participle of scarel. Scott, Quentin Durward, vi. form of scared, past skeary, skeery (skēr'i), a. A dialectal form of scaryl. It is not to be marveled at that amidst such a place as this, for the first time visited, the horses were a little skeary . R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, lix. skeatest, n. pl. See skate2. skedaddle (skē-dad'l), v.; pret. and pp. ske daddled, ppr. skedaddling. [Of obscure provincial origin. It has been variously referred to a Scand. source, to Celtic, and even to Gr. σκε δαννίναι, scatter; but the word is obviously of a free and popular type, with a freq. termination -le; it may have been based on the earlier form of shed1 (AS. sceádan ), pour, etc.: see shed1.] I. trans. To spill; scatter. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] The Times remarked on the word [ skedaddle ), and Lord Hill wrote to prove that it was excellent Scotch. The Americans only misapply the word, which means, in Dumfries, "to spill"-milkmaids, for example, saying, "You are skedaddling all that milk.” Hotten, Slang Dictionary, p. 292. "Why," they (my English friends] exclaimed, "we used to live in Lancashire, and heard skedaddle every day of our lives. It means to scatter, or drop in a scattering way. If you run with a basket of potatoes or apples, and keep spilling some of them in an irregular way along the path, you are said to skedaddle them. Or if you carry a tumbler full of milk up-stairs, and what De Quincey would call the titubation' of your gait causes a row of drops of milk on the stair-carpet to mark your upward course,. you are said to have skedaddled the milk." The Atlantic, XL. 234. II. in trans. To betake one's self hastily to flight; run away; scamper off, as through fear or in panic. [Colloq. and ludicrous.] A special Government train, with a me enger, pa ed through here to-night. Western troops are expected hourly. Rebel skedaddling is the next thing on the programme. New York Tribune , War Correspondence, May 27, 1862. skedaddle (skē-dad'l), n. [ crous.] Their noisy drums had ceased, and suddenly I perceived a general skedaddle , as those upon our right flank started off in full speed. Sir S. Baker , Is mail i a, p. 211. ( Bartlett .) skee (skē), n. [Also ski ; ski = Norw. ski , skid , skid a = Sw. skid , skidh , a snow-shoe, prop. a billet of wood, = E. shide : see shide , and cf. skid1 , skidder .] A wooden runner, of tough wood, from five to ten feet long, an inch or an inch and a half thick at the middle, but thinner Skee. a, profile view; b, view from above. toward the ends, an inch wider than the shoe of the user, and turned up in a curve at the front. Skees are secured, one to each foot, in such a way as to be easily cast off in case of accident, and are used for sliding down a declivity or as a substitute for snowshoes. Ski , then, as will have been already gathered, are long narrow strips of wood, those used in Norway being from three to four inches in breadth, eight feet more or le in length, one inch in thickne at the centre under the foot, and bevelling off to about a quarter of an inch at either end. In front they are curved upwards and pointed, and they are sometimes a little turned up at the back end too. Nansen, First Cro ing of Green land, I. 75. [ skid1 . skee (skē), v . i. skeed (skēd), n . skeel (skēl), n. [Also (Sc.) skeil , skeill , early mod. E. also skeele , skaill , skill , skell ; skele , skjōla , a pail, bucket.] 1. A shal- low wooden ve el. Burnes berande the the bredes vpon brode skeles , That were of sylueren syzt & seerved ther-wyth. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1405. 2. A shallow wooden ve el used for holding milk; also, a milking-pail. Skeels are broad shallow ve els, principally for the use of setting milk in, to stand for cream; made in the tub manner - from eighteen inches to two feet and a half diameter; and from five to seven inches deep. Marshall , Rural Economy, p. 269. ( Jamie son .) The Yorkshire skeel with one handle is described as a milking pail. Marshall , Rural Economy, p. 26. (Jamie son.) IMG:content-1181.jpg:[graphic] Same as shelduck, Same as shelduck, 3. A tub used in washing. [Prov. Eng. or Scotch in all uses.] skeelduck (skēl'duk), n. sheldrake. [Scotch.] skeelgoose (skēl'gös), n. sheldrake. [Scotch.] skeeling (skē'ling), n. [An una ibilated variant of shealing1 .] 1. A shed; an outhouse; a shealing. [Prov. Eng.]-2. The inner part of a barn or garret where the slope of the roof comes. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] skeely1 (skē'li), a . [ skeel2 +-y1.] Skilful; intelligent; experienced. [Scotch.] O whare will I get a skeely skipper To sail this new ship of mine? Sir Patrick Spens (Child's Ballads, III. 152). She was a kind woman, and seemed skeely about horned beasts. Scott , Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxviii. skeely2 (skēʻli), v. i. Same as skelly1. skeen (skēn). Another spelling of skean2, squean. skeer (skēr), v. and n. A dialectal form of scarel. skee-race (skērās), n. A race upon skees. Properly speaking, a skee - race is not a race-not a test of speed, but a test of skill. H. H. Boyesen , in St. Nicholas, X. 310. skeer-devil (skērʼdev"l), n. The swift, Cypselus apus : so called from its skimming flight. Also skeer-devil swing-devil. See cut under Cypselus. [Prov. Eng.]