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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Skillie, adj. [Skill n.; also in the later Sc. and north. Eng. dialects.] Skilled, expert, extremely knowledgeable. —1592 Crawford Mun. Invent. II 202 (21 April).
To caus ane skillie and weill willit or craftie man in fyning of metallis to wissie my myne 1614 Misc. Spald. C. I 263.
Skillie tasters of wine … know the wine ‘Odore, sapore, colore’ —superl. 1638 Bk. Univ. Kirk App. xix.
Let the skilliest of the clerks of sessione … be conjoined as their assessours
