Once Holmes was visited by the person with a request for help. He was in a worn suit, a shirt with shabby cuffs and an old top head on his head. Holmes refused to help him. When the man left, disappointed Watson jumped on his friend:
- Sherlock, you are a great detective. How could you refuse to help the poor man?
- My dear friend, he was not absolutely poor. It his purse there was 115 pounds and 25 pence.
- But how do you know ?
- It is elementary, Buddy. Let’s count it together.
- a skin of a flayed animal with or without the hair etc. B material prepared from skins.
- complexion of the skin.
- outer layer or covering, esp. Of a fruit, sausage, etc.
- film like skin on a liquid etc.
- container for liquid, made of an animal's skin.
- slang skinhead. —v. (-nn-) 1 remove the skin from.
- graze (part of the body).
- slang swindle. be skin and bone be very thin. By (or with) the skin of one's teeth by a very narrow margin. Get under a person's skin colloq. Interest or annoy a person intensely. Have a thick (or thin) skin be insensitive (or sensitive). No skin off one's nose colloq. Of no consequence to one. skinless adj. [old norse]
SKIP
—v. (-pp-) 1 a move along lightly, esp. With alternate hops. B jump lightly, esp. Over a skipping-rope. C gambol, caper, frisk.
- (often foll. By from, off, to) move quickly from one point, subject, etc. To another.
- (also absol.) Omit parts of (a text, subject, etc.).
- colloq. Miss intentionally, not attend.
- colloq. Leave hurriedly. —n. Skipping movement or action. skip it colloq. Abandon a topic etc. [probably scandinavian]
- n. - large container for building refuse etc.
- container for transporting or raising materials in mining etc. [old norse]
SKIT
n. Light, usu. Short, piece of satire or burlesque. [perhaps from old norse: related to *shoot]
SKUA
n. Large predatory sea bird. [old norse]
SLAB
n. - flat thick esp. Rectangular piece of solid material, esp. Stone.
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