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A genus of rays which includes the skates. See Skate.

The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also Rajæ, and Rajii.

Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiæ, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.

nerally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.

One who skates at a rink. [Colloq.]

A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.

A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.

One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

The friar skate. [Scot.]

See Skate, for the foot.

t is extracted from the kidney of the dogfish (of the genus Scylium), the shark, and the skate.

The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks.

e lost not one of her forty-five minutes in picking and choosing, - - no shilly-shally in Kate. De Quincey.

Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate. Starry ray (Zoöl.), a European skate (Raita radiata); -- so called from the stellate bases of the dorsal spines.

it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.; also: (Rowing)

Same as Zenick. [Written also suricate, surikate.]

A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back.

A skate. [Prov. Eng.]

dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways. Tobacco box (Zoöl.), the common American skate. -- Tobacco camphor. (Chem.) See Nicotianine. -- Tobacco man, a tobacconist. [R.] -- Tobacco pipe. (a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or other material. (b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian. --…

, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate.