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- English Word Skinner Definition One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.
- English Word Skinniness Definition Quality of being skinny.
- English Word Skinning Definition of Skin
- English Word Skinny Definition Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh.
- English Word Skip Definition A basket. See Skep.
- English Word Skip Definition A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
- English Word Skip Definition An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
- English Word Skip Definition A charge of sirup in the pans.
- English Word Skip Definition A beehive; a skep.
- English Word Skip Definition To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit.
- English Word Skip Definition Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
- English Word Skip Definition To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
- English Word Skip Definition To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.
- English Word Skip Definition To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.
- English Word Skip Definition A light leap or bound.
- English Word Skip Definition The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- English Word Skip Definition A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- English Word Skipjack Definition An upstart.
- English Word Skipjack Definition An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
- English Word Skipjack Definition A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.
- English Word Skipjack Definition A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
- English Word Skipped Definition of Skip
- English Word Skipper Definition One who, or that which, skips.
- English Word Skipper Definition A young, thoughtless person.
- English Word Skipper Definition The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
- English Word Skipper Definition The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
- English Word Skipper Definition Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.
- English Word Skipper Definition The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.
- English Word Skipper Definition A ship boy.
- English Word Skippet Definition A small boat; a skiff.