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1.
skil
n.
340 quotations in 11 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) The intellectual faculty, reason; also
person.
;
wit and skil
; (b)
skil wille (lereth, mot sen)
, reason demands (teaches, might discover);
skil witnesse
, reason; -- ?error for
skil-wisnes
n.;
a
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