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water course or way; a reach of water. Down that long, dark lode . . . he and his brother skated home in triumph. C. Kingsley.

The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata). [Prov. Eng.] Fair maid. (Zoöl.) See under Fair, a. -- Maid of honor, a female attendant of a queen or royal princess; - - usually of noble family, and having to perform only nominal or honorary duties. -- Old maid. S…

or. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color. [Written also muskat.]

Connected with both the nose and the mouth; as, the nasobuccal groove in the skate.

den gold. Milton. Pavement teeth (Zoöl.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.

A certain fancy figure in skating.

A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.

of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races. The race is not to the swift. Eccl. ix. 11. I wield the gauntlet, and I run the race. Pope.…

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.

An artificial sheet of ice, generally 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.]

Skating in 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.

; hurt; waste; misfortune. [Written also scathe.] But she was somedeal deaf, and that was skathe. Chaucer. Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath. Spenser. Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction. Shak.