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One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.

One skilled in siderography.

One skilled in simples, or medicinal plants; a simpler. Sir T. Browne.

Lit., skilled mechanical work, such as that required in wood carving; trade work; hence, a system (usually called the sloyd system) of manual training in the practical use of the tools and materials used in the trades, and of instruction in the making and use of the plans and specifications connected with trade work. T…

ck movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap. He's a nimble fellow, And alike skilled in every liberal science, As having certain snaps of all. B. Jonson.

One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.

One who investigates by means of a spectroscope; one skilled in the use of the spectroscope.

One skilled in sphenography; a sphenographist.

One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.

A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government. [Obs.] Statists indeed, And lovers of their country. Milton.

One skilled in steganography; a cryptographer.

One who is skilled in stenography; a writer of shorthand.

One skilled in the use or construction of stereoscopes.

One skilled in the use of the stethoscope.

One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.

One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.

One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.

One who forms or divides words into syllables, or is skilled in doing this.

One skilled in syphilology.

A person skilled in taxidermy.