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▪ I. skewed, a.1 ? Obs.|skjuːd| Also 5 scued, skevyd, 5–7 skued, 7 skude, skewd. [Of doubtful origin: perh. f. OF. escu shield (cf. L. scutulātus as a colour of a horse, f. scutula platter), but there is also close resemblance in form and sense to Icel. skjóttr, the history of which is equally obscure.] Skewbald. In quot. 1495 the reading of the Bodleian MS. is scawed, translating maculosum of the original.
c1440Pallad. on Husb. i. 703 (E.E.T.S.), The skewed goos, the brune goose as the white Is not fecounde. Ibid. iv. 810 The gray [horse], the goldenhered and the skued [v.r. scued]. 1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 507 Item, payd to Richard Wayfer..for a skevyd nagg iiij.s. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxvi. 830 Some Catte is whyte, some red, some blacke, some skewed and specklyd. a1529Skelton E. Rummyng 142 Some be flybytten, Some skewed as a kytten. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 116 b, The yelowish and the skued or pied horses are discommended almost of all men. 1611Cotgr., Pecile, a pide, or skude colour of a horse. 1616J. Lane Contn. Sqr.'s T. xi. 323 Skewd was his horse, of manie colors chaunginge. a1800Pegge Suppl. Grose s.v., A skew'd horse, one of two colours. ▪ II. skewed, a.2|skjuːd| [f. skew n.3 or v.2] 1. a. Set obliquely or aslant; skew. Also Comb.
1611Bible 1 Kings vi. 4 marg., Windowes broad within and narrow without; or skewed and closed. 1619Fletcher Wild Goose Chase iv. i, As I live I am asham'd, this wench has reach'd me,..This skew'd ey'd Carrion. 1840Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. III. 109/1 It is in the construction of railroads that the skewed arch meets with its most important application. 1895C. R. B. Barrett Surrey iii. 95 The eastern half of the chancel is skewed internally. b. fig.
1960Economist 25 June 1330/1 This triple structure [of a book] is a magnificent achievement,..but its magnificence is..skewed at its foundation... The skewness derives from Professor Hayek's perfectly legitimate definition of freedom. 1977New Yorker 17 Oct. 78/2 She quickly came to share her husband's feelings about the skewed state of the world. 2. a. Statistics. = skew a. 1 c.
1940Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXX. 259 A difficult test tends to produce a positively skewed score-scatter. 1953E. Mayr et al. Methods & Princ. Systematic Zool. vii. 134 A skewed curve is a curve in which the mode..is above or below the mean. 1977Lancet 5 Feb. 311/1 In our hands, the crude breath-test results are highly skewed, but logarithmic transformation does produce a distribution which is indistinguishable from normal. 1977R. E. Megill Introd. Risk Analysis iii. 22 The distribution shown in Fig. 3.1 is skewed to the right; i.e. it has more values to the right of its highest frequency (mode) than to the left. b. Of a sample or data: biased, not representative.
1975Amer. Speech 1973 XLVIII. 6 Since the data used for restructuring would have been external and skewed, one would expect attempts at restructuring to be only partially successful. 1977Times 12 May 23/2 Quotas..are at present heavily skewed in favour of those countries which were economically powerful when the [International Monetary] Fund was set up. 3. Distorted; shifted in emphasis or character.
1935G. K. Zipf Psycho-Biol. of Lang. iii. 105 A range of frequency where the skewed phoneme t in ts would be most stable. 1965E. Haugen Norwegian Eng. Dict. 40/1 The typical East Norwegian (Oslo) [vowel] system is markedly skewed (in the same direction as Swedish)... The whole system has undergone a counterclockwise movement. 1980Nature 17 Jan. 234/1 Critics..argued that the military control of research meant such research would inevitably be skewed towards the production of weapons of mass destruction. 1981Time 7 Dec. 79/2 The wildness of the cat, its..skewed version of reality. |