3o HISTORT of the SOCIETT. 



" Skul, Skull, Skoll. i. A goblet or large bowl, for con- 

 taining liquor of any kind. 



The Troiane women ftude with hare doun fchaik 

 About the bere, weping with mony allake : 

 And on we keft of warme milk mony a. Jkul, 

 And of the blude of facrifice coupis ful : 

 The faule we bery in fepulture on this wyfe, 

 The lattir halefing fyne loud fchoutit thrys. 



Dougl. Virg. 69. I. 20». 



As coupis correfponds to pateras in the original, Jkul is ufed for 

 cymbia y which Douglas elfewhere renders in this manner; 



Tua filver coppis fchapin like ane bote. 



Ibid. 136. /. 35. 



We are not, however, hence to conclude, that the word Jkul I ne- 

 cefTarily denoted a veflel of this form ; for he elfewhere ufes it, 

 conjoined with Jlagon, in rendering crater as : 



For ioy thay pingil than for till renew 

 Thare bankettis with al obferuance dew ; 

 And for thir tithingis, mflakoun and mjkull, 

 Thay fkynk the wyne, and wauchtis cowpis full. 



Ibid. 210. /. 5. 



2. The term has been metonymically ufed to denote the falu- 

 tation of one who is prefent, or the refpecl: paid to an abfent 

 perfon, by expreiling a wilh for his health ; while he who does 

 fo at the fame time partakes of the drink that is ufed by the 

 company, in token of his cordiality. This is what is now called 

 " drinking one's health." In this fenfe it occurs in the account 

 of Gowrie's confpiracy, publifhed by royal authority. " The 



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