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A tribe of lizards including the skinks. See Skink.

nd tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. See Illust. under Skink.

A skink.

f scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease. [Written also skirrhous.]

mits a creaking sound when incised. [Sometimes incorrectly written schirrus; written also skirrhus.]

See Skimmer.

he cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues in the newly born. It is usually fatal. Called also skinbound disease.

A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.

Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates.

e's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip. [Cant]

An hermaphrodite. [Obs.] Skinner.

To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game. [Cant, U.S.]

An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard. Thackeray.

Skillful in, or fond of, writing. [Obs.] Barrow.

A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.

Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.

, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may devel…

Any affection of the skin dependent on scrofula.

A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.

The nape of the neck; the loose outside skin, as of the back of the neck.