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One skilled in syphilology.

Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances. He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin. Macaul…

One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.

singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form nests. The common Indian species are O. longicauda, which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the golden-headed tailor b…

Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14- 30). He is chiefly to be considered in his three different…

Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talent; mentally gifted. Abp. Abbot (1663).

A person skilled in taxidermy.

One skilled in taxonomy.

The method of performance in any art; technical skill; artistic execution; technique. They illustrate the method of nature, not the technic of a manlike Artificer. Tyndall.

A technicist; esp., one skilled particularly in the technical details of his work.

One skilled to technics or in one or more of the practical arts.

One skilled in technology; one who treats of arts, or of the terms of arts.

One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.

Relating to, or skilled in, theory; theoretically skilled. [Obs.] A man but young, Yet old in judgment, theoric and practic In all humanity. Massinger.

One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.

One who is skilled in the science of topography; one who describes a particular place, town, city, or tract of land. Dante is the one authorized topographer of the mediæval hell. Milman.

One skilled in the theory or use of torpedoes; also, one who favors the use of torpedoes.

Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.

A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.

A cook. [Obs.] The skillfulest trencher-men of Media. Sir P. Sidney.