▪ 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.
| 1591 Fletcher Russe Commw. (Hakl.) 14 They skise a large space, and seeme for to flie withall, and therefore they call them..flying squirrels. 1641 Brome 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). 1790 Grose Prov. Gloss., To skice, to play and frolick about. 1846 W. Sandys Spec. Corn. Dial. 19 Then a passel of maidens..beginn'd for to skeyce and to fade so friskis. 1867 Harland & 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.
| 1600 Holland 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. |