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• A trick or prank. "Mony a prank an' mirthfu shavie."-Blackwood's Mag.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

• sh[=a]'vi, n. (Scot.) a trick or prank.--Also SK[=A]'VIE. [Perh. Dan. skæv, crooked; cf. Ger. schief, oblique.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson