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▪ I. skeer dial. f. scare v.; var. of skere a. Obs.▪ II. skeer, v.1 Now dial. Also 7 skeere. [Cf. skirr v.] trans. = skirr v. 4. For intransitive uses, current in Somerset and Wiltshire, see the Eng. Dial. Dict.1636 R. James Minucius Felix 8 Children sportfully contending who should skeere shells fa...
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Ted Skeer
Skeer. Thaddeus was the youngest of the family. Skeer claimed to have found the tire in a barn.
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Hadston Skeers
The words skear (also spelt skeer, skere, and skerr) and carr, are Geordie dialect given to an area of low coastal rocks.
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skier
▪ I. skier (ˈskiːə(r)) [f. ski n. + -er1.] a. One who uses or travels on skis; a ski-runner; b. a water-skier. See also ski-ing vbl. n.1895 Advance (Chicago) 4 Apr. 967/2, I have seen an expert skeer go down a long steep hill with the swiftness scarcely equaled by a bird. 1924 K. Furse Ski-Running 5...
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Stateside (film)
Mark departs to his training and finds that Staff Sergeant Skeer (Val Kilmer) has taken an interest in him as because Mark is using the Corps to escape
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skirr
▪ I. skirr, n. (skɜː(r)) Also scurr, skurr. [f. the vb.] A sound of a grating, rasping, or whirring character.c 1870 M. Clarke in Mem. Vol. (1884) 127 How many nights in that humble shelter have I listened to the skirr of the wild cats. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xx. 219 The scurr of wh...
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Pied starling
This species has a number of calls, but the most familiar is a skeer kerrra kerrra. There is also a soft warbling song.
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skere
▪ I. † skere, a. and adv. Obs. Forms: 3–4 sker (4 scker), 3–5 skere, 4 skeer, 5 Sc. skeyr. [a. ON. skǽrr (Norw. skjær, Da. skær, Sw. skär) bright, clean, pure: cf. ME. scēre, schēre sheer a.] A. adj. 1. Pure, purified; cleansed or free from sin or guilt.a 1225 Ancr. R. 350 Whoa is þeonne skerre, & m...
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Earl Northern
Jurors were questioned whether they had read accounts of the trials of Harry Pierpont and Thaddeus Skeer, charged as principals in the South Kokomo bank The defense argued that it would be unfair to single out Northern with a life sentence, when neither Pierpont or Skeer received such harsh sentences, and
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tarnal
tarnal, a. (adv.) slang (chiefly U.S.). (ˈtɑːnəl) Aphetic dial. pronunciation of eternal, vulgarly used as an expression of execration, passing into a mere intensive: cf. eternal a. 7. Hence ˈtarnally adv.1790 R. Tyler Contrast ii. ii. (1887) 39 The snarl-headed curs fell a-kicking and cursing of me...
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Aaron S. French
Skeer of Chicago, and they had one child, Mary Adelaide, who died at age 18.
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lil
▪ I. lil, lill, n. (lɪl) [Romany.] ‖ a. As a gipsy word: A book. b. slang. (See quots.); also ‘a five-pound note’ (Farmer).1812 J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Lill, a pocket-book. 1851 Borrow Lavengro I. xvii. 219 Then the more shame for you—a snake-fellow—a horse-witch—and a lil-reader—yet you can't shift...
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Pearl Elliott
Harry Pierpont
At the time of a robbery of the South Side State Bank in Kokomo in 1925, Elliott reportedly harbored the bank robbers Harry Pierpont, Ted Skeer
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scare-devil
ˈscare-devil [f. scare v. + devil n.] † 1. A name for plants of the genus Hypericum, formerly supposed to possess the power of curing persons possessed with devils. Obs. rare—1.1751 G. Lavington Enthus. Meth. & Papists iii. (1754) 178 Such is the herb Hypericum, called also St. John's-Wort, and Scar...
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