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- English Word Skippet Definition A small round box for keeping records.
- English Word Skipping Definition of Skip
- English Word Skippingly Definition In a skipping manner; by skips, or light leaps.
- English Word Skirl Definition To utter in a shrill tone; to scream.
- English Word Skirl Definition A shrill cry or sound.
- English Word Skirlcock Definition The missel thrush; -- so called from its harsh alarm note.
- English Word Skirlcrake Definition The turnstone.
- English Word Skirling Definition A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.
- English Word Skirling Definition A small trout or salmon; -- a name used loosely.
- English Word Skirmish Definition To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.
- English Word Skirmish Definition A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops.
- English Word Skirmish Definition A slight contest.
- English Word Skirmished Definition of Skirmish
- English Word Skirmisher Definition One who skirmishes.
- English Word Skirmisher Definition Soldiers deployed in loose order, to cover the front or flanks of an advancing army or a marching column.
- English Word Skirmishing Definition of Skirmish
- English Word Skirr Definition To ramble over in order to clear; to scour.
- English Word Skirr Definition To scour; to scud; to run.
- English Word Skirr Definition A tern.
- English Word Skirret Definition An umbelliferous plant (Sium, / Pimpinella, Sisarum). It is a native of Asia, but has been long cultivated in Europe for its edible clustered tuberous roots, which are very sweet.
- English Word Skirrhus Definition See Scirrhus.
- English Word Skirt Definition The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
- English Word Skirt Definition A loose edging to any part of a dress.
- English Word Skirt Definition Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything
- English Word Skirt Definition A petticoat.
- English Word Skirt Definition The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
- English Word Skirt Definition To cover with a skirt; to surround.
- English Word Skirt Definition To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.
- English Word Skirt Definition To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.
- English Word Skirted Definition of Skirt