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- English Word Skeletonizer Definition Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
- English Word Skeletonizing Definition of Skeletonize
- English Word Skellum Definition A scoundrel.
- English Word Skelly Definition To squint.
- English Word Skelly Definition A squint.
- English Word Skelp Definition A blow; a smart stroke.
- English Word Skelp Definition A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain.
- English Word Skelp Definition To strike; to slap.
- English Word Skelp Definition A wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.
- English Word Skelter Definition To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; -- with away or off.
- English Word Sken Definition To squint.
- English Word Skene Definition See Skean.
- English Word Skep Definition A coarse round farm basket.
- English Word Skep Definition A beehive.
- English Word Skeptic Definition One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons.
- English Word Skeptic Definition A doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a Pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist.
- English Word Skeptic Definition A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion.
- English Word Skeptic Definition Alt. of Skeptical
- English Word Skeptical Definition Of or pertaining to a sceptic or skepticism; characterized by skepticism; hesitating to admit the certainly of doctrines or principles; doubting of everything.
- English Word Skeptical Definition Doubting or denying the truth of revelation, or the sacred Scriptures.
- English Word Skepticism Definition An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.
- English Word Skepticism Definition The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles.
- English Word Skepticism Definition A doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the Christian religion, or of the being, perfections, or truth of God.
- English Word Skepticize Definition To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything.
- English Word Skerries Definition of Skerry
- English Word Skerry Definition A rocky isle; an insulated rock.
- English Word Sketch Definition An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.
- English Word Sketch Definition To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.
- English Word Sketch Definition To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.
- English Word Sketch Definition To make sketches, as of landscapes.