aˈsklent, aˈsclent, adv.
[Cf. sclender, sclate = slender, slate.]
Scotch form of aslant.
| 1584 J. Carmichael Let. in Misc. Wodr. Soc. (1844) 443 They..hes bene farther careit asklent then reason can warrand. 1657 S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 61 They always took the bog a-sclent [= they fled]. 1792 Burns Duncan Gray i, Maggie coost her head fu' high, Look'd asklent and unco skeigh. |