Lexicographical Neighbors of Scriking
Literary usage of Scriking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bacteria, Yeasts, and Molds in the Home by Herbert William Conn (1912)
"At a ° . air scriKing a is a large sporangium filled with spores. mass OI molds
in full fruit will detach some of these minute spores and blow them away. ..."
2. Astronomy for Schools and General Readers by Isaac Sharpless, George Morris Philips (1892)
"... and bound off, making, in the opposite direction, the same angle with the
perpendicular to the surface which they had before scriking. ..."
3. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"scriking, sb. Shrieking, screaming. ' " There was sike ¡hiking and shouting ;"
such screaming and bawling, as in a street commotion.' Wb. Gl. Scrimp, adj. ..."
4. A Book about the Garden and the Gardener by Samuel Reynolds Hole (1892)
"As concerns amusements, it's no good a-howling and a-scriking because flower-shows
by themselves, with some few exceptions, won't pay expenses, ..."
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