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Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle. Scholastic retiary versatility of logic. Coleridge.

ide down; to invert. A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill. Sir W. Temple.

One skilled in rhinology.

The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity.

One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.

One skilled in, or tenaciously adhering to, the rubric or rubrics.

Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship. "Rude was the cloth." Chaucer. Rude and unpolished stones. Bp. Stillingfleet. The heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. Milton.

Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail. Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Milton.

needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker. Susie dear, bring your sampler and Mrs. Schumann will show you how to make that W you bothered over. E. E. Hale.

Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles. His science, coolness, and great strength. G. A. Lawrence.

Knowing; skillful. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game. [Cant, U.S.]

To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift.

Skillful in, or fond of, writing. [Obs.] Barrow.

A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.

Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship.

Versed; skilled; accomplished. [Obs.] Well seen in every science that mote be. Spenser. Noble Boyle, not less in nature seen, Than his great brother read in states and men. Dryden.

One skilled in selenography. Wright.

cts distant far. Milton. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Burke.