different between scyle vs scye

English

Etymology

Apparently a learned borrowing from Old English s?ylian, s?ilian (“to separate; part; remove”). Cognate with Icelandic skilja (“to separate; split; divide”). The inherited Middle English forms of these verbs were Middle English schillen and skillen respectively. More at skill.

Verb

scyle (third-person singular simple present scyles, present participle scyling, simple past and past participle scyled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To hide; to secrete; to conceal.

Anagrams

• cleys, cyles

English

Etymology

Unknown

Perhaps Old French sier (“to cut”), from Latin secare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: sigh, psi, xi, sai Si

Noun

scye (plural scyes)

1. An armhole (or, occasionally, a leghole) in tailoring and dressmaking.
   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     on the seat lay folded a pair of blue cotton pants creased at the groin, their short fly zippered open, and over them a white underbrief, the sinus of its pouch humped between elliptical scyes.

Anagrams

• Sec'y, YECs, sec'y, syce