To SKAIL, SKAILL, SKALE, v. a.
1. To disperse.
Wyntown.
2. To dismiss, S.
Acts Ja. III.
To skail the byke, to disperse an assembly, S.
3. To diffuse; applied to rumours.
Doug.
4. To scatter, applied to the mind.
Wyntown.
5. To spill, to shed, S.
6. To unrip, S. B.
Ross.
7. To skale doun, to pour out.
Doug.
8. To skale doun, to dishevel.
Doug.
9. To skail house, to disfurnish.
Rutherford.
10. To skale a rig, to plough ground so as to make it fall away from the crown of the ridge, S.
11. To skale a sege, to raise a siege.
Poems 16th Cent.
12. To skail a proclamation, to recall it.
Balfour.
13. To skail a gun, to empty it, S.
Su. G. Isl. skil-ia, separare; Gael. scaoil-am, id.
To Skail, Skale, Scale, v. n.
1. To part one from another.
Barbour.
Isl. skil-iast, unus ab altero recedere.
2. To be diffused.
Wallace.
Skail, Scail, s.
1. A dispersion, S.
2. A scattered party.
Barbour.
Skailin, Scailin, s. Dispersion, S.
J. Nicol.
Skail-wind, s. That which causes dispersion, S.
M. Bruce.