scyle

English

Etymology

Apparently a learned borrowing from Old English sċylian, sċilian (“to separate; part; remove”). Cognate with Icelandic skilja (“to separate; split; divide”). The inherited Middle English forms of these verbs were Middle English schillen and skillen respectively. More at skill.

Verb

scyle (third-person singular simple present scyles, present participle scyling, simple past and past participle scyled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To hide; to secrete; to conceal.
   • 1894, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls:

     The hackee looked soyned and tried to scyle. I belabored him and he cleped, making vigorous oppugnation, and evidently longing for divagation.

References

• “scyle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• cleys, cyles