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- English Word Skilling Definition A bay of a barn; also, a slight addition to a cottage.
- English Word Skilling Definition A money od account in Sweden, Norwey, Denmark, and North Germany, and also a coin. It had various values, from three fourths of a cent in Norway to more than two cents in Lubeck.
- English Word Skilts Definition A kind of large, coarse, short trousers formerly worn.
- English Word Skilty Definition The water rail.
- English Word Skim Definition To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.
- English Word Skim Definition To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.
- English Word Skim Definition To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
- English Word Skim Definition Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper.
- English Word Skim Definition To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
- English Word Skim Definition To hasten along with superficial attention.
- English Word Skim Definition To put on the finishing coat of plaster.
- English Word Skim Definition Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.
- English Word Skimback Definition The quillback.
- English Word Skimble-scamble Definition Rambling; disorderly; unconnected.
- English Word Skimitry Definition See Skimmington.
- English Word Skimmed Definition of Skim
- English Word Skimmer Definition One who, or that which, skims; esp., a utensil with which liquids are skimmed.
- English Word Skimmer Definition Any species of longwinged marine birds of the genus Rhynchops, allied to the terns, but having the lower mandible compressed and much longer than the upper one. These birds fly rapidly along the surface of the water, with the lower mandible immersed, thus skimming out small fishes. The American species (R. nigra) is common on the southern coasts of the United States. Called also scissorbill, and shearbill.
- English Word Skimmer Definition Any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops.
- English Word Skimmerton Definition See Skimmington.
- English Word Skimming Definition of Skim
- English Word Skimming Definition The act of one who skims.
- English Word Skimming Definition That which is skimmed from the surface of a liquid; -- chiefly used in the plural; as, the skimmings of broth.
- English Word Skimmingly Definition In a skimming manner.
- English Word Skimmington Definition A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.
- English Word Skimp Definition To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
- English Word Skimp Definition To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
- English Word Skimp Definition To save; to be parsimonious or niggardly.
- English Word Skimp Definition Scanty.
- English Word Skimped Definition of Skimp