Значение слова SKEAT в Литературной энциклопедии

REV. WALTER WILLIAM, Litt.D., LL.D. (1835).-Philologist and Early English scholar; has ed. Langland's _Piers Plowman_, _The Lay of Havelock_, Barbour's _Bruce_, and other early English texts, a complete ed. of Chaucer, 6 vols. (1894), and of many of his works separately, and is author of _An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language_, _Principles of English Etymology_, and books on the place-names of the counties of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Herts, and Bedford, etc.