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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as sakeen.

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Examples

  • A Hogg skyn being blown upp and sowed tyte, some fellow of a Spaniard had Venterd off and laid itt on the rudther and Stearn Post (itt stufft with powder), satt itt on fier, and went away unseene by our Peopple. some of our men smelling a strainge Smell, run to and thro 'about the Shipp to see for itt, lookeing every wheir.

    Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

  • Forsothe that like Joon hadde cloth of the beeris of cameylis and a girdil of skyn about his leendis; sothely his mete weren locustis and hony of the wode.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

  • And John was clothid with heeris of camelis, and a girdil of skyn abowte his leendis; and he eet locusts, and hony of the wode, and prechide, seyinge:

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885

  • In somer kepe your necke and face from the sonne; vse to [d] wear gloues made of goote skyn, perfumed with Amber degrece.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • She had long, black haire, which hanged loose down her back to her myddle; which only part was covered with a deare's skyn, and ells all naked.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • She had long, black haire, which hanged loose down her back to her myddle; which only part was covered with a deare's skyn, and ells all naked.

    Captain John Smith Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Och solen släcks, och aftonvinden lullar 11 för jordens barn sin vaggsång utur skyn, och aftonrodnad körer upp och rullar med rosenröda hjul kring himlens bryn.

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

  • Ty jorden är dock himmelns skugga, livet är förgården dock till Balderstemplet ovan skyn.

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

  • Då gulnade på tidens träd dess kronas prakt, och Nidhögg bet uppå dess rot, då lossades den gamla nattens krafter, Midgårdsormen slog 110 mot skyn sin ettersvällda stjärt, och Fenris röt, och Surturs eldsvärd ljungade från Muspelheim.

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

  • De lyckliga! dem skiljer ingen, när dagen kommer eller far, men deras liv är fritt som vingen, som bär i skyn det glada par.

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

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