SKAIL, SKALE, SCALE, vb. to scatter, disperse, dismiss, part,
    leave.  A very common word.  O.N. skilja, separate, O. Dan.
    skiliae, Norse, skilja, Dan. skille, Sw. dial. skila. 
    The long vowel is unusual.  Cp. skeely in N. Sco. from O.N.
    skilinn.  The same change of i to an e-vowel is observed in
    gleit and quey.

SKAIL, sb. a storm, a strong wind that “skails.”  Isaiah, XXVIII,
    2.  See skail, vb.

SKATH, SKAITH, SCAITH, sb. harm, misery.  O.N. skaethi, harm,
    damage, Norse skade, id., Dan. skade, O.E. sceaetha.

SKANT, sb. want, poverty.  Burns, 290, I, 3.  O.N. skammt.  See
    Skeat.  Cp. skerum skamti, in short measure.

SKANTLIN, sb. little.  Burns, 5, 5, 7.  As adv. generally
    skantlins, scantlings, scarcely.  O.N. skamt.

SKANTLY, adv. with difficulty, hardly.  C.S., 69.  See skant.

SKAR, sb. a scarecrow, a fright.  Lyndsay, 437, 1633.  From vb.
    skar, to frighten, Eng. scare, M.E. skerren.  O.N.
    skirra.  See Skeat.

SKEIGH, adj. originally meant timid, then very frequently, dainty,
    nice, finally, proud.  Dunbar, T.M.W., 357.  Burns, 193, 46, I.
    Norse sky, Dan. sky, adj. and also vb. sky, to avoid. 
    B-S. compares Sw. skygg also, which is the same word, but
    the vowel is long.  The Sco. word, furthermore, seems to
    suggest an older diphthong.  It could, however, not be O.E.
    sceah, which gave M.E. scheah and should have become
    schee in N. Sco.  Doubtful.

SKER, adj. timid, easily frightened.  Dunbar, T.M.W., 357; Lyndsay,
    227, 126.  O.N. skjarr, shy, timid, Sw. dial. skar, M.E.
    scer, Cu. scar, wild.

SKEWYT, vb. pret. turned obliquely.  Wallace, IX, 148.  O.N.
    skaeifr, O. Ic. skeifr, oblique, Norse skaeiv, skjaiv,
    crooked, Dan. skjaev.  The Dan word exhibits monophthongation
    of aei to ae (not to e, i, as in sten).

SKILL, sb. motive, reason.  Gol. and Gaw., 147; Bruce, I, 214, 7. 
    See Skeat, and Kluge and Lutz.  In Dunbar, 307, 63, “did nane
    skill,” did not do a wise thing.

SKOG, SCOUG, sb. place of retreat, shelter, protection.  Dalr.,
    I, 30, 29; Isaiah, XXXII, 2.  O.N. skuggi, shade, Norse
    skugge, O. Sw. skuggi.

SKOGY, adj. shady.  Douglas, III, 1, 21, 16.  See scoug.

SKRECH, SKRIK, sb. a scream, yell.  C.S., 39; Rolland, IV, 336. 
    O.N.  Norse skrik, a cry, a yell, skrikja, vb.  Dan.
    skrig.  Cu. skrike to scream.  Eng. shriek < O.E.
    *_scrician_.