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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,481 words match “SKI”

SKILLING n. 2 definitions

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

A kind of large, coarse, short trousers formerly worn. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

The water rail. [Prov. Eng.]

SKIM v. 9 definitions

ting or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.

The quillback. [Local, U.S.]

SKIMBLE-SCAMBLE a.

Rambling; disorderly; unconnected. [Colloq.] Such a deal of skimble-scamble stuff. Shak.

See Skimmington.

SKIMMER n. 3 definitions

One who, or that which, skims; esp., a utensil with which liquids are skimmed.

See Skimmington.

SKIMMING n. 2 definitions

The act of one who skims.

SKIMMINGLY adv.

In a skimming manner.

A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.…

SKIMP v. 4 definitions

To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]

SKIN n. 11 definitions

A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1. "Skins of wine." Tennyson.

Not deeper than the skin; hence, superficial. Lowell.

Having the skin adhering closely and rigidly to the flesh; hidebound. Skinbound disease. (Med.) See Sclerema neonatorum, under Sclerema.

To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving. [Prev. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]

A penurious person; a miser; a niggard. Sir W. Scott.

As much as a skin can hold.

SKINK v. 4 definitions

To draw or serve, as drink. [Obs.] Bacchus the wine them skinketh all about. Chaucer. Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove. Shirley.