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The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Pilotage; skill in the duties of a pilot. [R.]

To pride or value; -- used reflexively. Men . . . pique themselves upon their skill. Locke.

Under the dominion or influence of a planet. "Skilled in the planetary hours." Drayton.

To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill. South. Plumed adder (Zoöl.), an African viper (Vipera, or Clotho, cornuta), having a plumelike structure over each eye. It is venomous, and is related to the African puff adder. Called also horned viper and hornsman. -- Plumed partr…

The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy. Shak.

One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak. A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. Dryden. Poet laureate. See und…

who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant. The sarcasms and invectives of the young polemic. Macaulay.

a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.

Without skill or merit; as, he performs poorly. Poorly off, not well off; not rich.

A little basin; a porringer; a skillet.

fired simply to kill, without reference to the rules of sport; a shot needling no special skill.

Artful; deceitful; skillful. [Obs.] "Cunning sleights and practick knavery." Spenser.

Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.

By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject.

Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness. [R.] "His nice fence and his active practice." Shak.

Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton.

One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.

One skilled in affairs. My attorney and solicitor too; a fine pragmatic. B. Jonson.

One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler.