skeezicks

[Etym.unknown.] A person who is physically small, or mentally or morally warped. skěg, s. [Icel. skegg a beard, the beak or cutzater of a ship.] 1. Naut.: A knee which unites and braces the skâll, v . t . [SCALE, v.] To climb. skar, skäir, v. i. [SCARE, v.] To take flight; to stern-post and keel of a boat. 2. ( Pl.): A kind of oats. *3. A kind of wild plum. skeg-shore, s. Ship build .: One of several pieces of plank put up endways under the skeg of a heavy ship, to steady her after-part a little at the moment of launching. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, skegger skěg-ger, s . [Gael.] (See extract.) "Little salmons, called skeggers , are bred of such sick salmon, that might not go to the sea."-Walton: Angler, chap. vii. skēigh, skiëgh ( gh guttural), adj. [SHY, a.] Proud, nice, high-mettled, skittish, coy. "When thou an' I were young and skeigh." Burns: To His Auld Mare. skêin (1), s. [SKAIN (1).]