(The original of this character was Leigh Hunt, who was greatly displeased at the skit.)
Skin (The Man without a), Richard Cumberland. So called by Garrick, on account of his painful sensitiveness of all criticism. The same irritability of temper made Sheridan caricature him in The Critic as “Sir Fretful Plagiary” (1732-1811).
Skinfaxi (“shining mane”), the horse which draws the chariot of day.--Scandinavian Mythology.
Skofnung, the sword of King Rolf, the Norway hero, preserved for centuries in Iceland.
Skogan. (See Scogan.)
Skreigh (Mr.), the precentor at the Gordon Arms inn, Kippletringan.--Sir W. Scott, Guy Mannering (time, George II.).
Skulls at Banquets. Plutarch tells us that towards the close of an Egyptian feast a servant brought in a skeleton, and cried to the guests, “Eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow you die!”
Like skulls at Memphian banquets.
Byron, Don Juan, iii. 65 (1820).
Skurliewhitter (Andrew), the scrivener.--Sir W. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel (time, James I.).