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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scyle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• cleys, cyles