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v. t. To turn aside. [ Poet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

O, how are they wrapped in with infamies
That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ Cf. D. schuin, schuins, sideways, schuiven to shove, schuinte slope. Cf. Asquint. ] Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion. [ 1913 Webster ]

They dart away; they wheel askance. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. toward the side, rather than directly ahead; -- used of a glance.
Syn. -- askance, sidelong. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ }. [ Named after the town Biskara, in Algeria. ] (Med.) Same as Aleppo boil. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Same as Boscage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thridding the somber boskage of the wood. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Russ. britshka; cf. Pol. bryczka, dim. of bryka freight wagon. ] A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or , n. (Geol.) See Eschar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A leap or caper. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. A shoe with a metal runner (called a blade) attached to permit the wearer to glide on ice. [ PJC ]

pos>n. One who skates on ice wearing an ice skate; esp. an athlete who performs athletic or artistic movements on a sheet of ice, wearing ice skates; a speed skater or a figure skater. [ PJC ]

n. See Muscadel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Muscat. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A resident of the state of Nebraska.
Syn. -- Cornhusker. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ From Oriskany, in New York. ] (Geol.) Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oriskany period, a subdivision of the American Paleozoic system intermediate or transitional in character between the Silurian and Devonian ages. See Chart of Geology. [ 1913 Webster ]

. to glide on roller skates, as one might on ice skates. [ PJC ]

. 1. a shoe with a set of wheels attached so that the wearer can glide over a flat surface. To move on such a device is reverred to as to skate or to rollerskate. To rollerskate is a form of recreation or sport. [ PJC ]

2. a metal frame of the size of a shoe, with a set of wheels attached, and with adjustable clamps and straps that permit a shoe to be reversibly fastened to the frame. It serves the same purpose as the roller skate having the shoe permanently attached, but is typically less expensive. [ PJC ]

a. Hurtful. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of scath. ] Hurt; damage. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The larva of a bee. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) An additional piece fastened to the keel of a boat to prevent lateral motion. See Skeg. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Skein. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Skean. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perhaps originally, a companion in winding thread (see Skein), or a companion in arms, from skain a sword (see Skean). ] A messmate; a companion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Scurvy knave! I am none of his firt-gills; I am none of his skainsmates. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Scatch. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See 5th Scald. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Scaldic. Max Müller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To scale; to mount. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ From the root of scare. ] Wild; timid; shy. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Scarf a cormorant. ] (Zool.) The shag. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G., fr. It. scartare to discard. ] 1. A three-handed card game played with 32 cards, of which two constitute the skat (sense 2), or widow. The players bid for the privilege of attempting any of several games or tasks, in most of which the player undertaking the game must take tricks counting in aggregate at least 61 (the counting cards being ace 11, ten 10, king 4, queen 3, jack 2). The four jacks are the best trumps, ranking club, spade, heart, diamond, and ten outranks king or queen (but when the player undertakes to lose all the tricks, the cards rank as in whist). The value of hands depends upon the game played, trump suit, points taken, and number of matadores. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Skat) A widow of two cards. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ D. schaats. Cf. Scatches. ] A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Batavia rushes forth; and as they sweep,
On sounding skates, a thousand different ways,
In circling poise, swift as the winds, along,
The then gay land is maddened all to joy. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Roller skate. See under Roller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Skated; p. pr. & vb. n. Skating. ] To move on skates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. skata; cf. Prov. G. schatten, meer-schatten, L. squatus, squatina, and E. shad. ] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus Raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal fin. The pectoral fins, which are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes. The skin is more or less spinose. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Some of the species are used for food, as the European blue or gray skate (Raia batis), which sometimes weighs nearly 200 pounds. The American smooth, or barn-door, skate (Raia laevis) is also a large species, often becoming three or four feet across. The common spiny skate (Raia erinacea) is much smaller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Skate's egg. See Sea purse. --
Skate sucker, any marine leech of the genus Pontobdella, parasitic on skates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who skates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects belonging to Gerris, Pyrrhocoris, Prostemma, and allied genera. They have long legs, and run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, dung + -ol. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A constituent of human faeces formed in the small intestines as a product of the putrefaction of albuminous matter. It is also found in reduced indigo. Chemically it is methyl indol, C9H9N. [ 1913 Webster ]