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One skilled in cryptogamic botany.

One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept. [Colloq.]

Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning. Deep clerks she dumbs. Shak.

Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics. He had deeply offended both his nobles and people. Bacon. He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark viii. 12.

Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.

One skilled in dialectics.

A maker of dials; one skilled in dialing.

One skilled in dietetics. [R.]

A person employed in, or skilled in, diplomacy; a diplomat. In ability, Avaux had no superior among the numerous able diplomatics whom his country then possessed. Macaulay.

One skilled in divinity; a theologian. "Poets were the first divines." Denham.

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. [Obs.] One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. Bacon.

One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology.

One skilled in embryology.

A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.

A person skilled in epidemiology.

A woman skilled in equestrianism; a horsewoman.

One skilled in evolutions.

founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.

One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday.

To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self with a business, a book, or a science.