One who, or that which, skims; esp., a utensil with which liquids are skimmed.

See Skimmington.

The act of one who skims.

In a skimming manner.

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.

Scanty.

To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.

Not deeper than the skin; hence, superficial.

Having the skin adhering closely and rigidly to the flesh; hidebound.

To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.

A penurious person; a miser; a niggard.

As much as a skin can hold.

Drink; also, pottage.

One who serves liquor; a tapster.

Having no skin, or a very thin skin; as, skinless fruit.

One who skins.

Quality of being skinny.

Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh.

A light leap or bound.

An upstart.

The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.

A small boat; a skiff.

In a skipping manner; by skips, or light leaps.

A shrill cry or sound.

The missel thrush; -- so called from its harsh alarm note.

The turnstone.

A small trout or salmon; -- a name used loosely.

A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops.

One who skirmishes. Soldiers deployed in loose order, to cover the front or flanks of an advancing army or a marching column.

A tern.

An umbelliferous plant (Sium Sisarum syn. 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.

See Scirrhus.

To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.

A skirting board.

A reflection; a jeer or gibe; a sally; a brief satire; a squib.

To pass or glide lightly or with quick touches at intervals; to skip; to skim.

Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt.

Pertaining to the game of skittles.

The piked dogfish.

An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.

A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen.

To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).

An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.

The act of paring or splitting leather or skins.

A vell.

To shelter; to cover.

See Scolecite.

See Sconce.

The capital city of the Republic of Macedonia, population 448,229./ Skopje is modern city, but it is at the same time an ancient city with deep roots in the past and with a rich history. During the Roman period it was known under the name of Scupi. Later the town acquired its Slav name of Skopje. Skopje experienced a swift development after World War II. This trend was interrupted in 1963 when it was hit by a disastrous eartquake. Thanks to the solidarity of the whole world, Skopje was quickly renewed and rebuilt. Today Skopje is the political, economic, cultural and academic center of Macedonia (he Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. See also Macedonia{2}.

The saury.

See Raskolnik.

See Scorodite.

A guillemot.

The silver salmon.

See Screen.

The missel thrush.

See Scrimmage.

See Scrimp.

See Scringe.

The skrike.

See Skew.

A number of foxes together.

One who, or that which, skulks.

In a skulking manner.

The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.

A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a cap for protection.

A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.

See Sculpin.

See Scum.

In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king.

The surf duck.

The surf duck. A duck (Camptolaimus Labradorus) which formerly inhabited the Atlantic coast of New England. It is now supposed to be extinct. Called also Labrador duck, and pied duck.

Like the skunk, especially in odor.

The surf duck.

Skunk cabbage.

See Scurry.

A boat; a small vessel.

A mineral of a bright metallic luster and tin-white to pale lead-gray color. It consists of arsenic and cobalt.

To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen.

Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone.

Very high.

Surrounded by sky.

Like the sky; ethereal; being in the sky.

Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal.

A lark that mounts and sings as it files, especially the common species (Alauda arvensis) found in Europe and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated for its melodious song; -- called also sky laverock. See under Lark.

The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing.

A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.

An aeronaut.

To rise rapidly; -- usually used figuratively, as of prices.

The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.

A skysail of a triangular form. A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. A very tall building, especially one over 20 stories high. Hence, anything usually large, high, or excessive.

Toward the sky.

That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.

Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank.

A saw for cutting slabs from logs. A slabbing machine.

One who slabbers, or drools; hence, an idiot.

Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.

Quality of being slabby.

Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces.

Thick; viscous.

The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail.

A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.

To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.

In a slack manner.

The quality or state of being slack.

A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground.

To form, or form into, a slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.

Of or pertaining to slag; resembling slag; as, slaggy cobalt.

A weaver's reed; a sley.

To go out; to become extinct.

Not capable of being slaked.

Slacken.

The act of one who, or that which, slams.

With great violence; with a slamming or banging noise.

A slut; a slatternly woman.

To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.

One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator.

Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander.

To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.

One who uses abusive slang; a ranting partisan.