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Definition of Skail
1. to disperse [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: disperse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skail
Literary usage of Skail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"To skail, SKALI, SCALE, rn 1. To part one from another. Harbour.— l. ... The act
of dispersing, or of driving away, Ettr. For. skail-WATER, ». ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"A dispersion or separation ; as, the skail of the kirk, the dismission or ...
skail-\VATER, *. The water that is let off by a sluice before it reaches the ..."
3. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"To skail a Sege, to raise a siege, by obliging the besieging army to disperse) or to
... skail-WATEK, j. The water that is let off by a sluice before it ..."
4. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern: With an Historical Introduction and Notes by William Motherwell (1846)
"Preface to Lang- toft's Chronicle, p. xxxvii. * See Book VI., cap. XVIII., and
Book VII., cap. VII. Dr. Leyden thinks it probable that skail ..."
5. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern: With an Historical Introduction and Notes by William Motherwell (1846)
"Dr. Leyden thinks it probable that skail ... and that, in place of " skail ...
ikt king tune 'I skail ye ; being the commencement or some prominent passage ..."
6. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern: With an Historical Introduction and Notes by William Motherwell (1846)
"... the king sune 'l skail ye ; being the commencement or some prominent passage
in the original ballad, or whatever it was. ..."
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