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(Zoöl.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvæ or maggots, called ckippers or hoppers, live in cheese. -- Cheese mite (Zoöl.), a minute mite (Tryoglyhus siro) in cheese and other articles of food. -- Cheese press, a press used in making cheese, to separate the whey from the curd, and to press t…

To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about. Then, 'tis time to dance off. Thackeray. More dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw. Shak. Shadows in the glassy waters dance. Byron. Where rivulets dance their wayward round. Wordsworth. To dance on a r…

Leaping or skipping about. [Obs.] I shot at it [a bird], but it was so desultory that I missed my aim. Gilbert White.

A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.…

To frisk; to skip; to caper. [Obs. Scot.] "The flisking flies." Gosson.

To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip. Dryden.

A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. Johnson.

To act frivolously; to trifle. Kipling. -- Friv"ol*er (#), Friv"ol*ler, n. [All Colloq.]

A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidæ, or skippers. -- n.

march laboriously. [Dial. or Colloq.] "If you persist in heaving and hiking like this." Kipling.

To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do. [Birds] hopping from spray to spray. Dryden.

A noisy or unrestrained carousal or frolic; a spree. [Slang] Kipling.

To dance a jig; to skip about. You jig, you amble, and you lisp. Shak.

t is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevallé, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel.

To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop. [Prov. Eng.] Wordsworth.

To pass over by, or as by a hop; to skip over; hence, to overpass. [Obs.] "When the time is overhipt." Holland.

India (from the Portuguese), any Christian minister; also, a priest of the native region. Kipling.

f piffling; trifling talk or action; piddling; twaddle. [Dial. or Slang] "Futile piffle." Kipling.

her walk. Chaucer. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play! Pope. And some, the darlings of their Lord, Play smiling with the flame and sword. Keble.