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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1420, 1500-1612
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(Sclice,) Sklys(e, n. Also: sclys, sclyise, sklice, sklysse, slyce. [ME and e.m.E. slice, sclyce (both 14th c.), sclise (c1400), sklice (c1420), sklyse (a1425); OF esclice, esclisse (1080 in Greimas).]
1. A fragment, a splinter, sliver.c1420 Wynt. viii 5155.
The Dowglas hit, and brak his spere; And a sclys [C. sklysse] off the schafft, that brak, In till his hand a wounde can mak 1531 Bell. Boece I cii.
James the Secound … was slane … be sklice of ane gun that brak be ouirchargeing 1570 Leslie 51.
This duik at the justing … wes … woundit be fortoune with the sklyse of ane speir 1596 Dalr. II 102/26.
The duke … standing besyd a singular combatt, is slane with a sklyse of a speir 1612 Monipennie Chron. in Misc. Scot. I 116.
This king was killed at the siege of Roxbrough, by the slyce of a great piece, being overcharged
2. A thin piece cut off a larger whole; a slice.15.. Christis Kirk 134 (B).
For fra his thowme thay dang a sklys Quhill he cryd barla fummyll
3. A flattish implement or instrument, occurring in a list of shoemaker's tools.1541 Aberd. B. Rec. I 176.
Ane traschor, ane stuffin sclyise, with ane yeirning sclyise, ane conȝe, ane camroll with ane obiuse
