Note: The officinal skink (Scincus officinalis) inhabits the sandy plains of South Africa.
The American skinks include numerous species of the genus Eumeces, as the blue-tailed skink (E.
Old World lizards belonging to the genus Seps; as, the ocellated sand skink (Seps ocellatus) of Southern Europe.
It is said by some European physicians that the flesh of the Skink really does possess medicinal powers, and that it has fallen into disrepute chiefly because those powers have been exaggerated.
The length of theSkink is about eight inches, and its very variable colour is generally yellowish brown, crossed with several dark bands.
Like all its tribe, the Skinkloves sandy localities, the soil exactly suiting its peculiar habits.
Less than three hours later I saw a skink that was active in the field.
Often a long stick or pole was used effectively to drive a skink back down the trunk by touching or pushing it on the upper side.
The experimenter's first attempt to grasp a skink sometimes failed, and it then dashed about the terrarium for several seconds, probably altering its temperature somewhat.
Even with such precaution, precise measurements could not be obtained and the readings often varied a millimeter or more for the same skink measured two or more times on the same day.
Among the 300 species of vertebrate animals recorded from the Reservation, the five-lined skink is one of those most frequently noticed in the field.
The Skink Woods study area of 2-1/4 acres is typical of favorable habitat in the region of the study, and the numbers taken there are more significant.
A half-grown skink contained numerous Eumeces scales, and McCauley interpreted this as indicating that it had fed on another of its own species or of E.
When handled, she voided feces which contained the nearly intact shell of a skink egg.
The population of five-lined skinks was relatively sparser than in Skink Woods.
If a log happens to be the home range center, the skink may travel the length of the log many times without making a comparable trip at right angles to this axis of travel, although it may make short side dashes to secure food.
Ordinarily each pitfall was covered with a large flat rock, propped against a nearby object to leave ample space for the skink to enter beneath it.
I had to make a dry-camp and my doughnuts is smashed up and the jelly glass broke but I never cried when a skink came.
I frowed a rock at him and I said, git outa here, you damn old skink or I'll knock your block off!
If a coyote or a skinkcame pestering around ME, I'd frow rocks at him," he said.
The Black Banded Skink is found in the central portions of the United States.
The Black Skink from Pennsylvania southward to Texas.
But, before I go, Let mischief take advice of villainy, Why to the hermit letters should be sent, To post Skink to the court incontinent.
You wrong mine honour: Skink must[547] be reveng'd.
I'll fit the pursuivant, and alderman, And Fauconbridge, ifSkink have any wit.
If I be rid of this evil angel that haunts me, many rings, much Fleet, will Skink come unto.
Enter SKINK with a patch on his face, and a falconer's lure in his hand.
Thus jets my nobleSkink along the streets, To whom each bonnet vails, and all knees bend; And yet my noble humour is too light By the six shillings.
The shape and size of some of the excavations suggested predation on skink nests.
In whatever way the skink manoeuvred, his antagonist met him with his scarlet front.
The skink at this moment perceived the long, red body of the serpent dangling above him; and knowing from experience a terrible enemy, ran off, endeavouring to hide himself in the grass.
It was well for him, as it proved afterwards, that he got off, even thus mutilated; and it would have been better for the skink had he remained in his hole.
It was on these same study areas (Quarry, Skink Woods, Rat Woods) that most of the frogs were obtained.
On the Reservation and in nearby counties of Kansas, the habitat preferences of the ant-eating frog and the five-lined skink largely coincide.
When only the hind legs and tail of the skinkstill protruded from the racer's mouth, I lunged forward in an attempt to catch both reptiles.
Now hear thou, Sir Peter, so handsome and fine, Say, may I this day skink before thee the wine?
She took in her fair hand the white silver can, To skink mead before the young knight she began.
To skink wine before me if thee I permit, Thou on the stone bench with the servants shalt sit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skink" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
