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A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat.

Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer.

of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army. [Written also skilligolee, skillygalee, etc.]

A bay of a barn; also, a slight addition to a cottage. [Prov. Eng.]

Want of skill; ignorance; unskillfulness. [Obs.] Sylvester.

Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician.

To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled. [U. S.]

wer to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren. Acts xi. 29. Nat…

Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to e…

One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited t…

To finish; to kill. [Obs.] Shak.

by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blacks…

To thrive or grow; to ripen. [Prov. Eng.] Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more. Tusser.

Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake. These men addressed themselves to the task. Macaulay.

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

A skilled alchemist. [Obs.]

The quality of being adept; skill.

Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance. It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke.

The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral.

A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.