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Sextonship. [Obs.] Ld. Bernes.

The office of a sexton. Swift.

A kind of gilt leather. See Checklaton. [Obs.] Spenser.

Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.

A person of weak intellect; a silly person.

ds, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.

ng; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages. The great skeleton of the world. Sir M. Hale.

To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.

See Skimmington.

A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.…

Having a smooth tongue; plausible; flattering.

Same as Adder's-tongue.

A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.

See Steatite, and Talc.

That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera. Owen.

Having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards.

Stands. Chaucer.

Asteriated sapphire.

A stone to raise the feet above the surface of water or mud in walking.