Definition of Skrying

1. skry [v] - See also: skry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skrying

skrimped
skrimping
skrimps
skrite
skronk
skronked
skronking
skronky
skrump
skrumped
skrumping
skrumps
skry
skryer
skryers
skrying (current term)
skua
skuas
skud
skudded
skuddin
skudler
skudlers
skuds
skug
skugged
skuggery
skugging
skugry
skugs

Literary usage of Skrying

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"It is certain that Dee now abandoned his mundane studies, and for many a year, through some thousands of pages, when Kelley was in the act of " skrying," ..."

2. Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1864)
"It is certain that Dee now abandoned his mundane studies, and for many a year, through some thousands of pages, when Kelley was in the act of " skrying," ..."

3. Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English by Isaac Disraeli (1842)
"It is certain that Dee now abandoned his mundane studies, and for many a year, through some thousands of pages, when Kelley was in the act of "skrying," ..."

4. A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical: Of the Various by John Ramsay McCulloch, Frederick Martin (1866)
"... called Otway and skrying Waters, which «re both situated on the eastern side of the Andes in the plains of Patagonia. By this extensive inlet. ..."

5. The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II: 1576-1612 by Henry Carrington Bolton (1904)
"... notary was an unscrupulous knave who found it profitable to impose on the credulous Doctor and he soon excelled him in "skrying" spirit communications. ..."

6. The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II: 1576-1612 by Henry Carrington Bolton (1904)
"... Doctor and he soon excelled him in "skrying" spirit communications. Kelley, whose black skull-cap scarcely concealed his mutilated ears, a souvenir of ..."

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