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▪ I. skice, v.1 Now dial. Also 6–7 skise, 9 skeyse. [Of obscure origin.] intr. To move quickly; to skip or frisk about; to run, etc.
1591Fletcher Russe Commw. (Hakl.) 14 They skise a large space, and seeme for to flie withall, and therefore they call them..flying squirrels. 1641Brome Joviall Crew iv. i, He is..up at five a Clock in the morning..; Skise out this away, and skise out that away; (He's no Snayle, I assure you). 1790Grose Prov. Gloss., To skice, to play and frolick about. 1846W. Sandys Spec. Corn. Dial. 19 Then a passel of maidens..beginn'd for to skeyce and to fade so friskis. 1867Harland & Wilkinson Folk-lore Lanc. 181 To Lapland, Finland, we do skice. 1875–in dial. glossaries (Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, etc.). ▪ II. † skice, v.2 Obs. rare. [? Alteration of sclice slice v.] trans. To slice, cut.
1600Holland Livy ii. lv. 829 The more fiercely he cryed on still, the more cruellie fell the Lictor to cut and skice his apparrell. 1601― Pliny I. 544 To skice and scrape their bark round about, in maner of scarification. |