Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Askew
ask (-ed, -eth, -ing, -s)aslant
askew, adj. [origin unknown; possibly < Germanic schief.]
Lob-sided; awry; slanted; leaning in one direction; [fig.] oblique; obscure; circuitous; indirect; paradoxical; looking from two different angles; (see 1 Corinthians 15:42-43).
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