Skid, a sovereign. Fashionable slang. Occasionally SKIV.
Skid, or SKIDPAN, an instrument for locking the wheel of a coach when going down hill. It is often said that a talkative person might put the SKID on, with advantage to his listeners, if not to himself.
Skied, or SKYED, thrown upwards, as “coppers” in tossing.
Skied. Artists say that a picture is SKIED when it is hung on the upper line at the Exhibition of the Royal Academy. See [FLOORED].
Skilligolee, prison gruel. Also sailors’ soup of many ingredients. The term is occasionally used in London workhouses.
Skilly, abbreviation of SKILLIGOLEE.
Skimmery, St. Mary Hall, Oxford.—University.
Skin, a purse. This term is mostly in use among thieves.
Skin, to abate, or lower the value of anything; “thin-SKINNED,” sensitive, touchy, liable to be “raw” on certain subjects.
Skin-the-lamb, a game at cards, a very expressive corruption of the term “lansquenet,” also a racing term. When a non-favourite wins a race, bookmakers are said to SKIN THE LAMB, under the supposition that they win all their bets, no person having backed the winner. This has been corrupted into SKINNER.