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scyling

scyling is the present participle and gerund of scyle.

Meaning of scyle

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

Questions about scyling

What is scyling the present participle and gerund of?
Scyling is the present participle and gerund of scyle.

Words near scyling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scyling (page history and authors); scyle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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