"sken" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Obscure origin, possibly related to askance.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skenning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skenned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skenned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sken (third-person singular simple present skens, present participle skenning, simple past and past participle skenned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1861, Edwin Waugh, The Birtle Carter's Tale About Owd Bodle:",
          "text": "He skens ill enough to crack a lookin'-glass.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Marie Joseph, A World Apart, page 344:",
          "text": "She's about seventy and skens like a basket of whelks, but she's as good as any doctor.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to squint"
      ],
      "id": "en-sken-en-verb-Z1X1wioI",
      "links": [
        [
          "squint",
          "squint"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Northern English) to squint"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Northern-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to glance"
      ],
      "id": "en-sken-en-verb-5LUO~LHC",
      "links": [
        [
          "glance",
          "glance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Northern English) to glance"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Northern-English"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/skɛn/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sken.wav",
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sken"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛn",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛn/1 syllable"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Obscure origin, possibly related to askance.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skenning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skenned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skenned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sken (third-person singular simple present skens, present participle skenning, simple past and past participle skenned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1861, Edwin Waugh, The Birtle Carter's Tale About Owd Bodle:",
          "text": "He skens ill enough to crack a lookin'-glass.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Marie Joseph, A World Apart, page 344:",
          "text": "She's about seventy and skens like a basket of whelks, but she's as good as any doctor.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to squint"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "squint",
          "squint"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Northern English) to squint"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Northern-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to glance"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "glance",
          "glance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Northern English) to glance"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Northern-English"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/skɛn/"
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sken"
}