A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1622-1640
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(Skin,) Skinne, v. [Skin n.; e.m.E. skyn (1547).] tr. a. To strip the skin from, to flay. b. intr. In fig. sense: To skin over, to heal or mend (as with new skin forming over and covering a wound). —a. 1622 Glasgow Weavers 68.
I sall skinne thy chaftes, and tack ane buckie afe thy cheike —b. 1640 Boyd Lett. Comf. 12.
All earthly sorrows … will be meekned and skinned over by time
