scullion (skulyon)

[Early mod. E. scolion, scoulyon; Then out spoke the young scullion boy, Said, "Here am I, a caddie." The Rantin ' Laddie (Child's Ballads, IV. 99). For hence will I, disguised, and hire myself To serve with scullions and with kitchen-knaves. Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette. Hence-2. A low, disreputable, mean fellow. Wilt thou prostrate to the odious charms Of this base scullion ? Quarles, Emblems, v. 8. South . The meanest scullion that followed his camp. scull i only (skul'yon-li), a. [ But this is not for an unbuttoned fellow to discu in the garret at his trestle, and dimension of candle by the snuff; which brought forth his scull i only paraphrase on St. Paul. Milton, Col aster i on. scullionry (skul scullionry (skul'yon-ri), n. [ Cotgrave . sculljoe, n . See sculjo . sculp (skulp), v. t . [= [= It. scolpire , scul pere, cut out, carve in stone, akin to scalpere , scratch, grave, carve (see scal scalp3 ), and prob. to Gr. γλύφειν , hollow out, engrave (see glyph ).] 1. To cut; carve; engrave; sculpture. [Now colloq.] O that the words I speak were registred,... Or that the tenor of my just complaint Were sculpt with steel on rocks of adamant! scutellar i us , an officer who had charge of the dishes, pots, etc., in a household, a maker or seller of dishes and pots, scutella , a salver, tray, ML. also a platter, plate, dish (> OF. escuele, escuelle , F. écuelle , a dish): see scutella1 , and cf. scuttle1 and skillet , from the same source. Cf. scullery . According to Skeat, the ME. squyler , squyllare, etc., are variants of an orig. swiller , a washer; but this is disproved by the forms cited above.] An officer or servant who had charge of the dishes, pots, etc., in a household, to keep them clean; a dish-washer. Prompt . Parv ., p. 471. How the squyler of the kechyn went furth out at the gate. Robert of Brunne , Handlyng Synne, 1. 5913. All such other as shall long unto the squyllare . Rutland Papers , p. 100. ( Hall i well .) scullery (skul'ér-i), n.; pl. sculleries (-iz). [Early mod. E. also skullery, earlier squillary; The pourvayours of the buttlarye and pourvayours of the squylerey. Ordinances and Regulations of the Royal [ Household (1790), p. 77. ( Skeat .) He shall be published... with cuts of the basting ladles, dripping-pans, and drudging-boxes, ., lately dug up at Rome out of an old subterranean skullery . W. King , Art of Cookery, Letter v. Sandys , Paraphrase of Job, xix. Architect Palloy sent a large model of the Bastille Harper's Mag ., LXXVII. 836. You pa under three spacious rest-houses, consider ately erected by the monks, and are struck by the bold inscriptions in Chinese characters sculped on the face of stones and boulders which fringe the path. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 759. 2. To flense, flay, or take the skin and blubber from, as a seal. [Newfoundland.] Having killed or at least stunned all they see within a short distance, they skin, or, as they call it, sculp them with a broad clasp-knife, called a sculping-knife. Fisheries of U. S. , V. ii. 480.