adv. [Cf. sclender, sclate = slender, slate.] Scotch form of ASLANT.
1584. J. Carmichael, Lett., in Misc. Wodr. Soc. (1844), 443. They … hes bene farther careit asklent then reason can warrand.
1657. Colvil, Whigs Supplic. (1751), 61. They always took the bog a-sclent [= they fled].
1792. Burns, Duncan Gray, i. Maggie coost her head fu’ high, Look’d asklent and unco skeigh.
