Skevi-Kare, a small sect in Sweden. In 1734 a little society of Pietists, driven from Denmark and other countries, took shelter on the little isle of VVermdoc, near Stockholm. Their contempt for the established worship had drawn them into disagreeable circumstances, but in 1746 they were permitted to lix themselves on this island, where their descendants still remain. Having taken the domain of Skevic, they are called Skevi- Kare.
SkeTW or AsKKWTATii.K. The term skew is still use<l in the north of England for a stone built into the bottom of a gable or other similar situations to support the coping above it. It ajjpears formerly to have been
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applied to the stones forming the slopes of the set-offs of buttresses and other projections. Skew- table was probably the course of stone weathered, or sloped, on the top, placed over a continuous set-off in a wall. — * ,^jj&|^' Parker, 67osA-.o/-.4r- ::^^£i^tl chitecture, s. v.
Skialgr (the bent one ) was the name of the 7noon in Norse mj-thology.
Skidbladuer, in Norse mythology, was a splen- did ship belonging to the god Frey. It was built by skilful dwarfs, the sons of Iwald, and was made large enough to hold all the asas with their armor, but is nevertheless capable of being reduced to so small di-
j mensions that it may be carried away in one's pocket.
! It, also commands favorable winds, whatever may be
j the destination of its voyage. — VoUmer, Wu7te7-b. d.
\ Mythol. s. v.
Skidinore, Jeremiah, an eminent elder in the j Presbyterian Church, was born at Kockaway, L. I., I March 23, 1797. He came to New York at the age of sixteen, where for fifty -seven years he was engaged in business. He was senior member of the firm of I Jeremiah Skidmore & Sons. He early became a mem- ber of the Rutgers Street Presbyterian Church, and re- j moved with it to its present location on Madison Av- enue, filling successively the office of deacon and elder. I He often represented the Church in her higher judica- tories, and in Church matters his judgment was highly prized. He maintained an unspotted and honorable business reputation. In social life he was regarded with the highest esteem, and in the domestic circle his Christian virtues were still more prized because better known. His example and influence were an untold blessing to society, and his death was a great loss to the Church. He died in New York, November, 1877. (W. P. S.)
Skierstuves, among the ancient Prussians, was a sausage-festival celebrated in memory of the dead.
Skilfingr, in Norse mythology, was a surname of Odin.
Skin (prop, "is", or, so called, perhaps, from its nudity; once 135, geled, so called from its smoothness [Job xvi, 15] ; once improperly for "11233, basdr [Psa. cii, b'\, flesh, as elsewhere rendered ; c'tfijia), thccuticle of man (Exod. xxxiv, 29; Lev. xiii, 2; Job vii, 5, etc.), or the hide of an animal (Job xl, 31); the latter chiefly as tak- en off (Gen. iii, 21 ; xxvii, 16; Lev. iv, 10; vii, 8), also as prepared or wrought into leather (xi, 32; xiii, 48; Numb, xxxi, 20). So in the jjlur. (Exod. xxvi, 14; xxxix, 34). For the tdch ash-skins (Numb, iv, 8; xi, 12), see Badgek. For the use of holding water, see Skin-bottle. The word in Heb. is poetically put for body (Job xviii, 13). The phrase "skin for skin" (ii, 4) means like for like, or what is intimate and dear as the skin. '• Skin of the teeth" (xix, 20) is evidently a pro- veri)ial phrase for the barest nothing.
Skiu-bottle. The peojile of Asia west of the In- dus use the skins of animals, on a journey, for carrying water and other li(|uids, as well as, in general, other ar- ticles of provision which they are obliged to take with them in tlieir journeys across the deserts or thinly in- habited plains. The preference of such vessels is well grounded. F^arthen or wooden vessels would soon be broken in the rough usage which all luggage receives while conveyed on the backs of camels, horses, or mules;
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Skin-bottles. (FiDtii the Museo Bor- bonico, Niiples.)
and if metal were used, the contents would be boiled or baked by the glowing heat of the sun. Besides, such skins exclude the encroachments of ants, which swarm in those countries, and also effectually guard against the admission of tine impalpable dust. The scarcity of streams and wells renders it indispensable for all travel- lers to carry water with them. When a party is large,
and the prospect of a fresh sup]jly of water distant, large skins of the camel or ox, two of which are a good load for a camel, are used. Goat -skins serve in ordinary cir- cumstances. Individual travellers, whether in large or small parties, mounted or on foot, usually carry a kid- skin of water, or else a sort of bottle of jjrepared leather shaped something like a powder -tlask. The greater portability of such skins is another advantage. The skins of kids and goats are those used for ordinary pur- poses. The head being cut off, the carcass is extracted without opening the belly, and the neck serves as the mouth of the vessel. See Bottle.
Skinfaxi {hri(jht mane), in Norse mythology, was the steed of Dagur (day), with which he makes his daily progress round the earth. The glitter of its mane gives light to the world.