Skeat, Walter William, English philologist, born in London; professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge; author of “Etymological Dictionary of the English Language,” and a great authority on Early English literature; the first Director of the Dialect Society, established in 1873; (b. 1835).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Skean-dhu * Skeggs, Miss