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One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.

To cut, strike, or kill, with a tomahawk.

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 remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1. We kill the viper, and make treacle of him. Jer. Taylor.

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

The act of killing. [Obs.]

To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

The act of killing a tyrant. Hume.

l, or the like, are strictly observed. A man, in questions of this kind, is able to be a skillful umpire between himself and others. Barrow.

Not able; not having sufficient strength, means, knowledge, skill, or the like; impotent' weak; helpless; incapable; -- now usually followed by an infinitive or an adverbial phrase; as, unable for work; unable to bear fatigue. Sapless age and weak unable limbs. Shak.

Lacking art or skill; artless. Congreve. -- Un*art"ful*ly, adv. Swift. Burke.

Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

Not feat; not dexterous; unskillful; clumsy. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us for the society of holy beings.

at if he were murdered, no geld, or fine, should be paid, or composition made by him that killed him. Cowell. Burrill.

Unskilled; inexperienced. [Obs.] Clarendon.

Not skilled; unversed; -- followed by in.