See Iskander Beg.
Skinners.
Bands of American marauders who infested the east bank of the Hudson during the American War of Independence.
Skirmishing Fund.
The name given to a fund raised by the Fenians about 1880, for the purpose of procuring the commission of dynamite outrages in England.
Skoptsi.
A Russian sect of schismatics, who practise self-mutilation. They interpret the Scriptures literally, and act on the injunction: “If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.”
Skuptschina.
The Servian National Assembly.