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One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.

w goods to customers). Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest. Matt. viii. 4. Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more Milton.

One skilled in siderography.

One skilled in simples, or medicinal plants; a simpler. Sir T. Browne.

Nares. Instead of a faithful and painful teacher, they hire a Sir John, which hath better skill in playing at tables, or in keeping of a garden, than in God's word. Latimer.

In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king. [Colloq.

Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill. Chaucer. "The juggler's sleight." Hudibras. Sleight of hand, legerdemain; prestidigitation.

Lit., skilled mechanical work, such as that required in wood carving; trade work; hence, a system (usually called the sloyd system) of manual training in the practical use of the tools and materials used in the trades, and of instruction in the making and use of the plans and specifications connected with trade work. T…

A boxing match or prize fight marked rather by heavy hitting than skill. [Cant or Slang]

Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good sense. Be ye sly as serpents, and simple as doves. Wyclif (Matt. x. 16). Whom graver age And long experience hath made wise and sly. Fairfax.

owledge of something; sciolism. I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all. Burton.

ck movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap. He's a nimble fellow, And alike skilled in every liberal science, As having certain snaps of all. B. Jonson.

A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction. Shak.

Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier. [R.] Shak.

Skillful; clever; crafty. [Obs.] Cudworth.

se; metrical composition; versification. A half-effected inscription. Written with little skill of songcraft. Longfellow.

One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.

One who investigates by means of a spectroscope; one skilled in the use of the spectroscope.

ith exercises for teaching children to spell; a speller. -- Spelling match, a contest of skill in spelling words, between two or more persons.

One skilled in sphenography; a sphenographist.