Definition of Skeat

1. Noun. English philologist (1835-1912).

Exact synonyms: Walter William Skeat
Generic synonyms: Philologist, Philologue

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skeat

Sixth Commandment
Sixth Crusade
Siâny
Sjaelland
Sjogren's disease
Sjogren's syndrome
Sjoqvist tractotomy
Sjögren's syndrome
Skagens Odde
Skagerak
Skagerrak
Skagit
Skagway
Skanda
Skaw
Skeat (current term)
Skeeter
Skeffington
Skeffington's daughter
Skeggers
Skeggy
Skegness
Skeltonian
Skene's glands
Skene's tubules
Skhimatarion
Skidoo
Skidoos
Skillern's fracture

Literary usage of Skeat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"By WW Skeat and CO BLAGDEN. 2 vols. Macmillan & Co. 1906. ... Mr. Skeat might also with advantage have given us a short sketch of the adventures of his ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... and was taken prisoner at " Retters", identified by unwary biographers as Retiers near Rennes, but by Skeat as Rethel near Reims, a place mentioned by ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"By WW Skeat and CO Blagden. Two vols. London: Mac- millan, 1906. 2. ... By WW Skeat. With a preface by CO Blagden. London: Macmillan, 1900. 4. The Todas. ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1907)
"By WW Skeat and CO Blagden. Two vols. London: Mac- millan, 1906. 2. ... By WW Skeat. With a preface by CO Blagden. London : Macmillan, 1900. 4. The Todas. ..."

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