Sizel=Scissel (q.v.).
Sizzle, siz′l, v.i. to make a sound as if frying.—n. a hissing sound; extreme heat.—n. Sizz′ling, a hissing.
Skain=Skein (q.v.).
Skainsmate, skānz′māt, n. (Shak.) a companion, a scapegrace.
Skald, n.=Scald, a poet.
Skat, skat, n. a game played with thirty-two cards as in Piquet, and said to have been invented in 1817 in Altenburg. Each of three players receives ten cards, the two others being laid aside (hence the name from O. Fr. escart, laying aside).
Skate, skāt, n. a kind of sandal or frame of wood on a steel blade for moving on ice.—v.i. to slide on, skates.—ns. Skā′ter; Skā′ting; Skā′ting-rink. [Dut. schaats; cf. also Dan. sköite.]
Skate, skāt, n. the popular name of several species of Ray, esp. those of the family Raiidæ and genus Raia, with greatly extended pectoral fins. [Ice. skata—Low L. squatus—L. squatina; cf. Shad.]
Skathe. Same as Scathe.
Skaw, skä, n. a promontory.—Also Scaw. [Ice. skagi—skaga, to jut out.]