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SKUL, SKULL, SKOLL, _s._
1. A goblet or large bowl, for containing liquor.
_Douglas._
2. The salutation of one who is present, or the respect paid to an absent person, by expressing a wish for his health, when one is about to drink.
_Cromarty._
Isl. _skal_, _skaal_, Su. G. _skol_, Dan. _skaal_, a cup, a bowl, a drinking vessel. Su. G. _dricka skala_, bibere pateram, quando bibitur alicujus honori et memoriae; Loccen. _Dricka ens skol_, id. Ihre.
SKUL, _s._ A scullion.
_G.o.dscroft._
Ir. _sguille_, id. Su. G. _skoel-ja_, eluere.
SKULE, _s._ An inflammatory disease affecting the palate of a horse, S.
Teut. _schuyl_, Su. G. _skalla_, id.
SKULE, SCULE, SKULL, _s._ A great collection of individuals, as of fishes, S.
_Burel._
A. S. _sceole_, coetus magnus, mult.i.tudo.
SKULES, _s. pl._ Stalls where cattle are fed, S. B.
Isl. _skiol_, Su. G. _skiul_, a covert.
SKULL, _s._ A shallow basket of a semicircular form, S.
_Dunbar._
Isl. _skiola_, vas quo arida vel liquida metiri consueverunt.
_To_ SKULT, _v. a._ To beat.
V. ~Scult~.
SKUR, _s._
1. A small horn, not fixed to the scull of an animal, but hanging by the skin, Ang.
2. The rough projecting part of a stone, Ang.
Su. G. _skoer-a_, rumpere.
SKUR, _s._ Perh. a scar, Mearns.
Isl. _skor_, incisura.
SKURYVAGE, _s._
1. A dissipated fellow, a lecher.
_Douglas._
2. A vagabond, Loth.
Lat. _scurra_ and _vag-or_.
SKURRIOUR, _s._ A scout.
V. ~Scurrour~.
SKUWES, _s. pl._ Groves.
_Sir Gawan._
A. S. _scua_, umbra.
_To_ SLA, _v. a._
1. To strike.
V. ~Slew~.
2. To slay, to kill.
_Wyntown._
Moes. G. _slahan_, Isl. _sla-a_, Belg. _sla_, to strike.
SLABBER, _s._ A slovenly fellow, Dumfr.
