Skĭnk1, n.
[A-S. scenc, Icel. skenkr.]
Sense 1. Drink; pottage. [Obs.] Bacon.
Sense 2. [Lat. scincus, Gr. σκίγκος.] (Zoöl.) A kind of lizard, of which one species (the Scincus officinalis), was considered by the ancients a sort of universal medicine. It has a long body, entirely covered with rounded imbricate scales, and the head is set with large plates somewhat like those of snakes. The skinks are very widely distributed in warm climates, some species appearing common to parts of the world quite distant from each other; a scincoidian.
