Sku"a (?), n. [Icel. sk&?;fr, sk&?;mr.] (Zoöl.) Any jager gull;
especially, the Megalestris skua; -- called also boatswain.
Skue (?), a. & n. See Skew.
Skulk (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skulked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Skulking.]
[Of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. skulke to spare or save one's self, to play
the truant, Sw. skolka to be at leisure, to shirk, Icel. skolla. Cf.
Scowl.] To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie
close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk. "Want skulks in holes and
crevices." W. C. Bryant.
Discovered and defeated of your prey, You skulked behind the fence,
and sneaked away.
Dryden.
Skulk, n. [Cf. Icel. skollr, skolli, a fox, and E. skulk, v.i.] A
number of foxes together. Wright.
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{ Skulk (?), Skulk"er (?), } n. One who, or that which, skulks.
Skulk"ing*ly, adv. In a skulking manner.
Skull (?), n. [See School a multitude.] A school, company, or shoal.
[Obs.]
A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him.
Warner.
These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls.
Holland.
Skull, n. [OE. skulle, sculle, scolle; akin to Scot. skull, skoll, a
bowl, Sw. skalle skull, skal a shell, and E. scale; cf. G. hirnschale,
Dan. hierneskal. Cf. Scale of a balance.] 1. (Anat.) The skeleton of
the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium,
and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of
Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.
In many fishes the skull is almost wholly cartilaginous but in the
higher vertebrates it is more or less completely ossified, several
bones are developed in the face, and the cranium is made up, wholly or
partially, of bony plates arranged in three segments, the frontal,
parietal, and occipital, and usually closely united in the adult.