scink

Noun (1)

skink (plural skinks)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A shin of beef.
   • lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast
2. (Scotland, obsolete) A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
   • For there are in the Flesh , Bones , Skinnes , organs , and the severall limbes of the living body : such spirits as are in the Flesh , Bone , and Skinke , beeing separated1623, Francis Bacon, Historia Vitae et Mortis
3. (Scotland, broadly) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
   • Cullen skink

Noun (2)

skink (plural skinks)

1. A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed; a sandfish.

Noun (3)

skink (plural skinks)

1. (obsolete) A drink.

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