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One who serves liquor; a tapster.

Having no skin, or a very thin skin; as, skinless fruit.

One who skins.

Quality of being skinny.

Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." Shak. He holds him with a skinny hand. Coleridge.

g a sportive spirit. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play Pope. So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically. Hawthorne.

An upstart. [Obs.] Ford.

One who, or that which, skips.

A small boat; a skiff. [Obs.] A little skippet floating did appear. Spenser.

In a skipping manner; by skips, or light leaps.

To utter in a shrill tone; to scream. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

The missel thrush; -- so called from its harsh alarm note. [Prev. Eng.]

The turnstone. [Prev. Eng.]

A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott. When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened. Mrs. J. H. Ewing.

To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.

One who skirmishes. Specifically: pl. (Mil.)

To ramble over in order to clear; to scour. [Archaic] Shak.

An umbelliferous plant (Sium, or Pimpinella, Sisarum). It is a native of Asia, but has been long cultivated in Europe for its edible clustered tuberous roots, which are very sweet.

See Scirrhus.

and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.