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scyle

scyle verb: to hide; to secrete; to conceal.

Verb

scyle (third-person singular simple present scyles, present participle scyling, simple past and past participle scyled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To hide; to secrete; to conceal.
    • The hackee looked soyned and tried to scyle. I belabored him and he cleped, making vigorous oppugnation, and evidently longing for divagation.1894, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls

Forms of scyle

third-person singular presentscyles
present participlescyling
past participlescyled
pastscyled

Origin of scyle

Apparently a learned borrowing from Old English sċylian, sċilian (“to separate; part; remove”). Cognate with Icelandic skilja (“to separate; split; divide”). The inherited Middle English forms of these verbs were Middle English schillen and skillen respectively. More at skill.

Questions about scyle

What does scyle mean?
Scyle means to hide; to secrete; to conceal.
What part of speech is scyle?
Scyle is a verb.
What is the past tense of scyle?
The past tense of scyle is scyled.

Words near scyle in the dictionary

  1. scyes
  2. scygonadin
  3. scygonadins
  4. scylacosaurid
  5. scylacosaurids
  6. scyle
  7. scyling
  8. scyliorhinid
  9. scyliorhinids
  10. Scylla
  11. scyllaeid

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