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A costume consisting of a plain belted waist and skirt of the same material.

A close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock.

A sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow. The gray skirts of a lifting squall. Tennyson. Black squall, a squall attended with dark, heavy clouds. -- Thick squall, a black squall accompanied by rain, hail, sleet, or snow. Totten. -- White squall, a squall which comes unexpectedly, without being m…

The setting of the sun; sunset. "When sundown skirts the moor." Tennyson.

of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow- tailed coat.

To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.

A kind of black coat for evening dress made without skirts; -- so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York. [U. S.]

ich encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like.

nvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England.