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Anything done or made with extraordinary skill; a capital performance; a chef-d'oeuvre; a supreme achievement. The top and masterpiece of art. South. Dissimulation was his masterpiece. Claredon.

Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden.

A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like; as, specifically:

y crude, unfinished, or elementary materials that are adapted to use only by processes of skilled labor. Cotton, wool, ore, logs, etc., are raw material.

; ripe. Now is love mature in ear. Tennison. How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage, Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age Pope.

lled time, measured out by the sun. Addison. To measure swords with one, to try another's skill in the use of the sword; hence, figuratively, to match one's abilities against an antagonist's.

A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments. An art quite lost with our mechanics. Sir T. Browne.…

One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist. Boyle.

A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.

A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals. Addison.

A worker in metals, or one skilled in metals.

One who works in metals, or prepares them for use; one who is skilled in metallurgy.

A person skilled in meteorology.

One skilled in, or given to, microscopy.

One who is skilled in or practices microtomy.

ce the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.

One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.

To make a false profession; to make pretensions to skill which is not possessed.

A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it. A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. Addison.

One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically (Founding), one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.