SKIRT

n. v.

8 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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.

2.
n.

A loose edging to any part of a dress. [Obs.] A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece. Addison.

3.
n.

Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything "Here in the skirts of the forest." Shak.

4.
n.

A petticoat.

5.
n.

The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals. Dunglison.

6.
v.

To cover with a skirt; to surround. Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. Milton.

7.
v.

To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees. "When sundown skirts the moor." Tennyson.

8.
v.

To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity. Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers. S. S. Smith.

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