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_Burel._
~Skelpie-limmer~, _s._
An opprobrious term applied to a female, S.
_Burns._
SKELT, _part. pa._ Unript.
V. ~Skail~, _v._
_To_ SKELVE, _v. n._ To separate in _lamina_, S. B.
Su. G. _skaell-a_, Isl. _skel-iast_, in tenues laminas dissilire; _skil-ia_, separare.
~Skelve~, _s._ A thin slice, S. B.
Teut. _schelve_, segmen.
~Skelvy~, _adj._
1. Having various _lamina_, S. B.
_Minstr. Bord._
2. Shelvy, S.
_Burns._
SKEO, _s._ A hut for drying fish, Orkn.
Isl. Norw. _skia-r_, id. pergula siccatoria.
SKEP, SKEPPE, SCAPE, _s._
1. A bee-hive made of twisted straw, S. A.
_Hume._
2. Transferred to industry.
_Ferguson._
Su. G. _skaepp-a_, a seed-vessel; Gael. _sgeip_, a bee-hive.
SKER, perhaps, a rock.
_Lyndsay._
Isl. _skaer_, scopulus maris.
SKERRY, _s._
1. An insulated rock, Orkn.
_Barry._
2. A flat rock, over which the sea flows when the tide rises.
_Stat. Acc._
Isl. _skaer_, a rock, and _ey_, an island.
SKERTER, _s._ The sea-belt, a fucus, Orkn.
_Neill._
SKET. _Ful sket_, full hastily.
_Sir Tristrem._
A. S. _on scyte_, in praecipiti; Isl. _skiot-ur_, celer.
SKEW, SKEU, _s._ The oblique part of a gable, S.
V. ~Shach~.
_J. Nicol._
_To_ ~Skew~, _v. a._
1. To build in an oblique form, S.
2. To cover gables with sods, Tweedd.
SKEW'D, _adj._ Acting like one deprived of reason, Perths.
V. ~Skaivie~.
