A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1623, 1684
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(Sculking,) Skulking, Skowkand, ppl. adj. [e.m.E. skulking (1619); Sculk v.] Skulking, ? in sense b of Sculk v.; ? sneaking; ? deceitful. —1623 Elgin Rec. II 180.
Scho confessit scho callit his wyff skowkand sow 1684 Sc. Ant. XV 28.
[They are to supply a cloth] of a dye that will distinguish sojors from other skulking and vagrant persons who have hitherto imitated the livery of the king's sojors
