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Scull, n.2 Also: sculle, (scill). [ME and e.m.E. scul, sculle (14th c.), skulle (Trevisa), earlier schulle (Ancr. R.), scolle (c1290), skul (1579), skull (1615), of uncertain origin.] The skull. — c1590 Fowler I 320/8.
Tome bottells ful and pischpotts fill [v.r. full] Or reaving trouble bothe braynes and scill [v.r. scull] Or rail on theme that home you led 1632 Lithgow Trav. x 488.
Your sexe, whose empty sculles … your selues peruersely vexe
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