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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.
Verb
scyle (third-person singular simple present scyles, present participle scyling, simple past and past participle scyled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To hide; to secrete; to conceal.
1894, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls:The hackee looked soyned and tried to scyle. I belabored him and he cleped, making vigorous oppugnation, and evidently longing for divagation.
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