skew1 (sku)

[Formerly also skiew, skue, scue; 5669 = schouwen, D. schuwen MLG. schuwen, LG. schuwen, schouen = OHG. scühen , sciuhen , MHG. schiuhen, schiuwen, G. scheuchen, scheuen, get out of the way, avoid, shun; from the adj.: D. schuw, etc., = AS. sceoh , shy: see shyl , a . , and cf. shyl , v., which is ult. a doublet of skew , v. The word appears to have nothing to do with Icel. skeifr =Sw. skef = Dan. skjæv = D. scheef = North. Fries. skiaf = G. schief , oblique (which is represented in E. by the dial. skiff2 , and of which the verb is Sw. skefva , look askance, squint, Dan. skjæve , slant, slope, swerve, look askance), or with Icel. ā skā , askew, skādhr , askew, which are generally supposed to be con- nected.] I, in trans. 11. To turn aside; slip or fall away; escape. Skilfulle skomfyture he skiftez as hym lykez, Is none so skathlye may skape, ne skewe fro his handes. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1562. And should they see us on our knees for ble ing, They'd scue aside, as frighted at our dre ing. Whiting , Albino and Bellama (1638). ( Nares .) 2. To start aside; swerve; shy, as a horse. [Prov. Eng.]-3. To move or go obliquely; sidle. To skue or walk skuing , to waddle, to go sideling along. E. Phillips , World of Words (1706). Child, you must walk straight, without skiewing and shailing to every step you set. Sir R. L'Estrange. (Latham.) 4. To look obliquely; squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously. To Skewe , limis oculis spectare. Levins, Manip. Vocab. (1570), p. 94. Whenever we find ourselves ready to fret at every cro occurrent, to slug in our own performances, to skew at the infirmities of others, take we notice first of the impatience of our own spirits, and condemn it. Bp . Sanders on , Sermons (1681), xxi. ( Latham .) II. trans. 1. To turn aside; give an oblique direction to; hence, to distort; put askew. Skew your eie towards the margent. Stan i hurst, p. 17. ( Hall i well.) 2. To shape or form in an oblique way. Windows broad within and narrow without, or skewed and closed. 1 Ki. vi. 4 (margin). To skue or chamfret, viz. to slope the edge of a stone, as masons doe in windowes, ., for the gaining of light. Cotgrave. 3. To throw or hurl obliquely. Imp. Dict. 4. To throw violently. Compare shy2. Halli well. skewer succe ive generators do not in general intersect. So skew quadric, etc. -Skew symmetric determinant. See determinant. - Skew symmetry, that symmetry which characterizes hemihedral crystals, more particularly those of the gyroidal type, as the trapezohedral forms common with quartz. - Skew table, in arch., a course of skews, as a slanting coping (on a gable), or any similar feature.-Skew wheel, a form of bevel-wheel having the teeth formed obliquely on the rim. Compare skew gearing.