Skink

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Drink; also, pottage.

II. Skink ·vi To serve or draw liquor.

III. Skink ·vt To draw or serve, as drink.

IV. Skink ·noun Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincidae, common in the warmer parts of all the continents.

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