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▪ I. ˈskinking, vbl. n.
[f. skink v.]
The action of pouring out or serving liquor. Also attrib.
1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 57 The skinking pottes..were all of pure fine Gold. 1598Florio, Versatione,..a skinking. 1611Ibid., A powring or skinking forth. 1631Mabbe Celestina ix. 105, I know no better office at boord, then to fall a skinking. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 102 Had Bacchus sell been there,..for skinkin', He couldna weil hae blam'd the drinkin'.
▪ II. ˈskinking, ppl. a.
[f. skink v.]
1. That skinks; wine-giving.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 74 With nauye we passed By mounts of Nazon too skincking Bacchus alotted.
2. Sc. Thin, watery. (Cf. skink n.2 2.)
1786Burns To a Haggis viii, Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware That jaups in luggies. a1894Stevenson St. Ives xxvii, A pint of skinking claret. |