"skene dhu" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skene dhus",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skenes dhu",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "skene dhu (plural skene dhus or skenes dhu)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "sgian dubh"
        }
      ],
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          "kind": "other",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1871, Henry Kingsley, chapter XVI, in Old Margaret. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 236",
          "text": "\"Will you give me his name?\" said Macgregor, \"for we have skene dhus in this country.\" / \"His name is John Van Eyck,\" said Van Dysart; \"but as you are never likely to meet him, you can keep your skene dhu in your stocking.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1890 October, A. P. Skene, “Notes on the Origin of the Name, Family, and Arms of Skene”, in Scottish Notes and Queries, volume V, number 5, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire: D. Wyllie & Son, […], published 1891, →OCLC, section III (Origin of the Arms (continued)), page 86, column 1",
          "text": "When I first saw engravings of these seals, I took Patrick's to bear the Skene coat, as always known since—three skenes, points upwards, bearing three wolves' heads. The blades show but little, but this could well be, even with skenes dhu, if they were pushed right up to the skull: the heads, however, are far too small.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of sgian dubh"
      ],
      "id": "en-skene_dhu-en-noun-AfOE-H2R",
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        [
          "sgian dubh",
          "sgian dubh#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "skene-dhu"
        }
      ],
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        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "skene dhu"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skene dhus",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skenes dhu",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "2": "skenes dhu",
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      },
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "sgian dubh"
        }
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1871, Henry Kingsley, chapter XVI, in Old Margaret. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 236",
          "text": "\"Will you give me his name?\" said Macgregor, \"for we have skene dhus in this country.\" / \"His name is John Van Eyck,\" said Van Dysart; \"but as you are never likely to meet him, you can keep your skene dhu in your stocking.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1890 October, A. P. Skene, “Notes on the Origin of the Name, Family, and Arms of Skene”, in Scottish Notes and Queries, volume V, number 5, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire: D. Wyllie & Son, […], published 1891, →OCLC, section III (Origin of the Arms (continued)), page 86, column 1",
          "text": "When I first saw engravings of these seals, I took Patrick's to bear the Skene coat, as always known since—three skenes, points upwards, bearing three wolves' heads. The blades show but little, but this could well be, even with skenes dhu, if they were pushed right up to the skull: the heads, however, are far too small.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of sgian dubh"
      ],
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        [
          "sgian dubh",
          "sgian dubh#English"
        ]
      ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "skene-dhu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "skene dhu"
}