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One skilled in otology; an aurist.

An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.

To exceed in generalship; to gain advantage over by superior military skill or executive ability; to outmaneuver. Chesterfield.

To exceed in storming. Insults the tempest and outstorms the skies. J. Barlow.

One who performs, or is skilled in, ovariotomy.

To pass over by, or as by a hop; to skip over; hence, to overpass. [Obs.] "When the time is overhipt." Holland.

To skip or leap over; to treat with indifference. Shak.

An upper skirt, shorter than the dress, and usually draped.

The skin of an ox, or leather made from it.

A group of hoofed mammals distinguished for the thickness of their skins, including the elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, horse, and hog. It is now considered an artificial group.

Thick-skinned; not sensitive to ridicule.

A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.

A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.

A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

An outer garment; a cloak mantle. His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. Spenser.

A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.

Skilled in all kinds of work. "The panurgic Diderot." J. Morley.

Skill in all kinds of work or business; craft. [R.] Bailey.

A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillæ of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart. Quain.