English Explanatory Dictionary

scyle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To hide; to secrete; to conceal.

Word forms

scyle scyles scyling scyled

Etymology

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.

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