Definition of "scheik" []

• Archaic form of sheik. (noun)

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• "And thus, in every land, civilisation and national life has arisen out of the patriarchal state; and the Eastern scheik, with his wives, free and slave, and his hundreds of fighting men born in his house, is the type of all primaeval rulers."
• "No scheik or emir among the Arabs wanders about the desert half so sumptuously provided."