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To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift.

Skillful in, or fond of, writing. [Obs.] Barrow.

A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.

Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship.

l. It feeds upon reptiles of various kinds, and is much prized on account of its habit of killing and devouring snakes of all kinds. Called also serpent eater.

Versed; skilled; accomplished. [Obs.] Well seen in every science that mote be. Spenser. Noble Boyle, not less in nature seen, Than his great brother read in states and men. Dryden.

One skilled in selenography. Wright.

The act of killing one's self; suicide. Hakewill.

ickens. To sell one's life dearly, to cause much loss to those who take one's life, as by killing a number of one's assailants. -- To sell (anything) out, to dispose of it wholly or entirely; as, he had sold out his corn, or his interest in a business.

ts distant far. Milton. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Burke.

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

The hard covering of an egg. Think him as a serpent's egg, . . . And kill him in the shell. Shak.

To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object. When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house. A. Tucker.

A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.

Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.

gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.

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.

y shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.

One skilled in siderography.