skinker (skingker)

[ server of drink; hence, the landlord of an alehouse or tavern. [Obsolete or provincial.] Jack skinker , fill it full; A pledge unto the health of heavenly Alvida. Greene and Lodge , Looking Gla for Lond. and Eng. A little further off, some old-fashioned skinkers and drawers, all with portentously red noses, were spreading a banquet on the leaf-strewn earth. Hawthorne, Blithe dale Romance, p. 245. skinking (sking'king), a. [Prop. ppr. of skink1, v.] Watery; thin; washy. [Scotch.] Ye pow'rs wha mak' mankind your care, And dish them out their bill o' fare, Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware That jaups in luggies. Burns, To a Haggis. skinklel (sking'kl), v. t. [Freq. of skink1.] Το sprinkle. [Scotch.] skinkle2 (sking'kl), v. i.; pret. and pp. skinkled, ppr. skinkling. [Appar. a remote freq. of shine (AS. scinan ).] To sparkle; glisten. [Scotch.] The cleading that fair Annet had on, It skinkled in their een. Lord Thomas and Fair Annet (Child's Ballads, II. 128). skinle (skin'les), a. [ skin + -le .] Having no skin, or having a very thin skin: as, skinle fruit. In the midst of all this chaos grinned from the chimneypiece. a tall cast of Michael Angelo's well-known skinle model. C. Kingsley, Alton Locke, vi. Skinle oat. See oat . - Skinle pea. See peal , 1. skinlett (skin'let), n. Thin skin. [Rare.] Cuticola , any filme, or skinlet , or thin rinde or pille. Florio, 1611. skin-merchant (skin'mėr"chant), n . 1. A dealer in skins. Hence-2. A recruiting-officer. Fair Annie's taen a silver can, Afore the bride to skink . Skien Annie ; Fair Annie (Child's Ballads, III. 388). [Now provincial in all senses.]