skelp

t. [ Gael.sgealp.] To strike, to slap. ( Scotch.) "To skelp an' scaud poor dogs like me." Burns: Addre to the Dell. skělp (1), s . [ Gael.sgealp .] 1. A blow, a slap. 2. A squall: a heavy fall of rain. ( Scotch.) skělp (2), s. [Etym. doubtful.] A strip of iron which is bent and welded into a tube to form a gun-barrel, or pipe. skěn, v . i . [Cf. Sw.skela =to squint, skelning = squinting.] To squint. (Prov. Eng.) ske-ně-a, s. [Named after Dr. Skene, of Aberdeen, a contemporary of Linnæus.] Zool.: A genus of Littorinide, made by Tate the type of a family Skeneide. Shell minute, orbicular, few whorled; peristome continuous, entire, boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; 1. A sort of basket, narrow at the bottom and wide at the top. "The skeps Chronicle. ... are then loaded."-London Daily 2. A bee-hive. (Scotch.) "But I'm thinking they are settled in their skeps for the night."- Scott : Rob Roy , ch. xxii. skěp-tic, skěp-tic-al, . [SCEPTIC, .] sker-rỹ, s. [Icel.sker; Dan.skar, skiar .] [SCAR (1), s.] A rocky island, an insulated rock, a reef. "The cautious helmsman gives its skerries and wave lashed cliffs as wide a berth as he conveniently can." London Standard , sketch, s . [Dutch schets a draught, model, sketch, from Lat. schedium=an extemporaneous poem, from Gr. schedios sudden, off-hand, near, from schedon near, hard by; Italian schizzo =a rough draught of anything; Ger, skizze =a sketch.] 1. Ord . Lang .: An outline or general delineation of anything; a first or rough draught of a plan or design. 2. Art : (1) The first embodiment of an artist's idea in modeling clay, canvas, or paper, from which he intends to produce a more finished performance. (2) A copy from nature only, sufficiently finished for the artist to secure materials for a picture; an outline of a building or street-view; a transcript of the human figure in pencil or chalk, with simple shades only, or a rough draught of the same in colors. "The memorandums and rude sketches of the master and surgeon."- Anson : Voyages, bk. ii., ch. iii. 3. Music: (1) A short movement, usually for the pianoforte, deriving its name from its descriptive character, or the slightne of its construction. (2) The tentative treatment of a subject, to be afterward fully worked out. "The sketches are in the key of C."-Grove: Dict. Music, iii. 527. sketch-book, s. IMG:content-1538.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To plan by giving the principal points or ideas of; to describe roughly. "He sketched a most attractive plan of camping out."Scribner's Magazine . B. In trans.: To practice sketching. skětch-er, s. [Eng. sketch , v.; er. One who sketches. "The woods and the waters were indeed the same that now swarm every autumn with admiring gazers and sketchers."-Macaulay. Hist . Eng .. ch. xiii. sketch-i lý, adv. [English sketchy, ly.] In a sketchy manner. "The authore writes too sketchily at times."-London Daily Chronicle. sketch-i-ne , s. [Eng. sketchy; -ne .) The quality or state of being sketchy. sketch-ỹ, a . [Eng. sketch ; y.) Po e ing the characteristics of a sketch; not elaborated; slim or slight in execution; not finished. "The sketchy freedom which varies the accustomed elaboration of detail."- London Daily Telegraph .