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a rock, and has 4700 inhabitants, a college, a monastery 
and an hospital. The chief employment in the town is 
weaving ; in the country, cultivating grapes. Lat. 48. 50. 
25. N. long. 17. 11. 45. E. 
SKALITZ, GROSS, a small town in the north-east of 
Bohemia; 12 miles north-north-east of Konigingratz. It 
has 800 inhabitants. 
SKALITZ, a small town in the interior of Bohemia, on 
the Sazawa; 24 miles south-east of Prague. 
SKALMIERZ, a petty town in the south-west of Poland; 
26 miles east-north-east of Cracow. Population 800. 
SKANDERBORG, a petty town of Denmark, in Jut¬ 
land; 14 miles south-south-west of Aarhuus, with only 500 
inhabitants, but containing a rural palace, visited occasion¬ 
ally by the kings of Denmark. 
SKANIA. See Scania. 
SKANOR, a small sea-port town in the south-west of 
Sweden, in Scania, with 600 inhabitants; 20 miles south- 
south-east of Lund. Lat. 55. 24. 52. N. long. 12. 50. 
30. E. 
SK ANTS LAND. See Sveaborg. 
SKAPTAA-JOKLE, a group of mountains in Iceland, 
from which a dreadful volcanic eruption took place in June, 
1785. 
SKARA, or Soara, an old town in the south of Sweden, 
in West Gothland, situated near the lake of Wener. It was 
in former ages the residence of the kings of West Gothland ; 
at present it contains hardly 1000 inhabitants, having been 
in 1719 totally destroyed by fire. It is still, however, the 
see of a bishop ; has a college, with a botanical garden, an 
hospital, a medical school and a large cathedral, said to have 
been erected soon after the introduction of Christianity into 
Sweden. The old palace, which stood near the town, was 
in 1611 destroyed by the Danes, together with the whole 
town. Skara gives name to the adjacent government or pro¬ 
vince ; 77 miles north-east of Gottenburg. Lat. 58. 24. N. 
long. 15. 30. E. 
SKARDIN. See Scardona. 
SKARR WATER, a small river of Scotland, in Dum- 
fries-shire, which rises in the Black hill, on the borders of 
Ayrshire, and after a winding course for several miles in a 
south-east direction, joins the Nith, opposite Slate island. 
SKARYSZOW, a small town in the south of Poland; 9 
miles south-east of Radom, and 60 south of Warsaw, with 
large cattle fairs. 
SKATE, s. A sort of shoe armed with iron for sliding- 
on the ice. See Scate. 
To SKATE, To slide on scales. See To Scate. 
SKATE, s. A flat sea-fish. See Scate. 
SKAYTF, in Ichthyology, the English name of a species 
of ray-fish, called by the generality of authors Raia Batis. 
SKAWA, a small river of Austrian Poland in the circle 
of Myslenice. It falls into the Vistula to the east of Os- 
wiecim. 
SKAWINA, a small town of Austrian Poland, on the 
small river Skawa; 31 miles south-west of Cracow. 
SKEAN, s. [Irish ana Erse; j-aegen, Saxon.] A short 
sword ; a knife.—Any man that is disposed to mischief, may 
under his mantle privily carry his head-piece, skean, or 
pistol, to be always in readiness. Spenser. 
SKECKLING, a parish of England, East Riding of York¬ 
shire; 24 miles from Hedon. 
SKEEBY, a hamlet of England, North riding of York¬ 
shire ; 2* miles north-east of Richmond. 
SKEEL, s. [sc/ia/e, German, patera, poculum patulum • 
vox Longobardica. Wachter.] A shallow wooden vessel 
for holding milk or cream. Gloucestershire, according to 
Grose. It is also so employed in other parts of England;, 
and, as he observes under another form of the word, slciel, is, 
in the west, a beer-cooler, used in brewing. 
SKEEN, or Skien, a small town in the south of Norway, 
bishopric of Christiana, situated on a river which bears its 
name. It contains 1800 inhabitants, and has productive 
mines of iron and copper; 38 miles south-south-west of 
Christiana, 
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SKEEN, Loch, a small lake of Scotland, in Dumfries¬ 
shire, about 1100 yards long and 400 broad. 
SKEFFINGTON, a parish of Englaud, in Leicestershire; 
10 miles east-by-south of Leicester. 
SKEFFLING, a parish of England, East Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 22i miles east-south-east of Kingston-upon-Hull. 
SKEG, s. A wild plum. 
SKEG, in Ship-building, the after-part of the keel, or that 
part whereon the stern-post is fixed. 
Skeg-shores, are one or two pieces of four-inch plank, 
put up endways under the skeg of the ship, to steady the 
after part a little, when in the act of launching. 
SKEGBY, a parish of England, in Nottinghamshire; 3 
miles west of Mansfield. Population 453. 
SKE'GGER, s. Little salmons called skeggcrs, are bred 
of such sick salmon that might not go to the sea, and though 
they abound, yet never thrive to any bigness. Walton. 
SKEGNESS, a parish of England in Lincolnshire, situ¬ 
ated on the sea shore; 11 miles east of Spilsby. 
SKE1LAY, a small island of the Hebrides, near Harris. 
SKELEBROOK, a township of England, West Riding 
of Yorkshire; 1\ miles south-east of Pontefract. 
SKELDEN, a hamlet of England, West Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 6h miles west-by-south of Rippon. 
SKELDNESS, a cape of Scotland, on the south-west 
of the island of Shetland. Lat. 60. 12. N. long. 1. 48. W. 
SKE'LETON, s. [<jvceXe7o?, Gr.] [In anatomy.] The 
bones of the body preserved together as much as can be in 
their natural situation. 2ui.ncT/. 
When rattling bones together fly, 
From the four corners of the sky ; 
When sinews o’er the skeletons are spread. 
Those cloth’d with flesh, and life inspires the dead. Dry den 
The compages of the principal parts.—The great structure 
itself, and its great integrals, the heavenly and elementary 
bodies, are framed in such a position and situation, the great 
skeleton of the world. Hale. 
SKELFLETE, a small river of England, in Yorkshire, 
which runs into the Humber, between Haxflete and Brom- 
flefe. 
SKELL, a small river of England, in Yorkshire, which 
runs into the Youre, near Rippon. 
SKELLAND, a hamlet of England, in Suffolk; 2§ miles 
from Stowmarket. 
SKELLIGS, two small islands on the south-west coast 
of Ireland, about six or seven miles south-west from Bolus 
Head. They are distinguished by the appellation of Great 
and Little: the former, about 2 miles south-west of the latter, 
lies in long. 10. 23. W. lat. 51. 42. N. 
SKELLINGTHORPE, a parish of England, in Lin¬ 
colnshire ; 5£ miles west of Lincoln. 
SKELLOWE, a township of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 5 \ miles north-west of Doncaster. 
SKE'LLUM, s. [schehne, Fr.] A knave, rascal. Un¬ 
used. —Sir Richard Grenville (in 1643) having deserted to 
the king at Oxford, they declared him traitor, rogue, villain, 
and skellum. Biog. Brit. 
SKELMANTHORPE, a township of England, West 
Riding of Yorkshire; 7 miles south-east of Huddersfield. 
SKELMERSDALE, a township of England, in Lanca¬ 
shire ; 4 miles east-south-east of Ormskirk. Population 
541. 
SKELSMERGH, a hamlet of England, in Westmore¬ 
land ; 3 miles north-by-east of Kendal. 
SKELTON, a parish of England, in Cumberland; 6\ 
miles north-west of Penrith. 
SKELTON, a village of England, East Riding of York¬ 
shire, situated on the banks of the Ouse; £ miles soutn- 
east of Howden. 
SKELTON, a township of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire; 3£ miles north-west of York. 
SKELTON, a township of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire; 4 miles north-east of Gainsborough. Popula¬ 
tion 717. 
SKELTON, 
