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Practice; skill. [Obs.] Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. Chaucer.

One skilled in the Greek language and literature; as, the critical Hellenist.

Skillful; dexterous; clever. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.

A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics. Greenhill.

Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. [Obs.] Pope.

A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology.

A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man.

To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.

suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind. It is my part to invent, and the musician's to humor that invention. Dryden.

The business of a housewife; female domestic economy and skill. Tusser.

One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters. Boyle.

One skilled in hydrology.

One who is versed or skilled in hydrostatics. [R.]

One skilled in hygiena; a hygienist.

A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.

One skilled in ichthyotomy.

A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous. Did I for this take pains to teach Our zealous ignorants to preach Denham.

To lay color on canvas by uniting them skillfully together. [R.] Cf. Impasto.

Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. A scirrh is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot.