An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

2. To squirt, to throw the spittle forcibly through the teeth, S.

Skite, s. The dung of a fowl, S. B.

Skyte, s. A nasty person, S. B.

Dan. skyden, sordidus.

To Skyte, v. n. To glide swiftly, S.

Su. G. skiut-a, id.

Ramsay.

SKIVERS, SKEEVERS, s. pl. The leather now generally used for binding school books, which is sliced into two, S.

Su. G. skifva, a slice, pl. skifvar.

SKLAFFORD HOLES, apertures in the walls of a barn, Ang.