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To fleet; to skim. [Obs.] Tusser.

Skimmed. [Obs.]

Having the maxilla, or lower jaw, longer than the upper, as in the skimmer.

An Eskimo snow house.

An Eskimo.

ut one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes.

A long, broad boat used by the Eskimos.

An outer garment made of the skins of birds or mammals, worn by Eskimos, etc.

aining to Parma in Italy. Parmesan cheese, a kind of cheese of a rich flavor, though from skimmed milk, made in Parma, Italy.

A process of desilverizing argentiferous lead by repeated meltings and skimmings, which concentrate the silver in the molten bath, the final skimmings being nearly pure lad. The processwas invented in 1833 by Hugh Lee Pattinson, an English metallurgist.

A flourlike food preparation made from skim milk, and consisting essentially of the unaltered proteid of milk. It is also used in making biscuits and crackers, for mixing with cocoa, etc. A mixture of this with butter, water, and salt is called Plasmon butter, and resembles clotted cream in appearance.…

(Ictiobus, or Carpiodes, cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and skimback.

An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.

s cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall. [Formerly written also sandever.]

See Skimmer.

To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface of; to skim. You that scum the molten lead. Dryden & Lee.

An instrument for taking off scum; a skimmer.

That which is scummed off; skimmings; scum; -- used chiefly in the plural.

To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing. Now shaves with level wing the deep. Milton.

The black skimmer. See Skimmer.