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One skilled in hygiena; a hygienist.

A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.

One skilled in ichthyotomy.

A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous. Did I for this take pains to teach Our zealous ignorants to preach Denham.

Not having experience unskilled. "Inexperienced youth." Cowper.

Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice. Akenside.

Unskilled; unready; awkward; incompetent; unqualified; -- said of person. [Obs.] See Unable.

Possessed of intelligence, education, or judgment; knowing; sensible; skilled; marked by intelligence; as, an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; an intelligent answer.

One who varnishes in the manner of the Japanese, or one skilled in the art.

One who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer. As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye. Shak. Jugglers and impostors do daily delude them. Sir T. Browne.

Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence. G. West.

Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.

A virtuoso skilled in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work. Lapidary's lathe, mill, or wheel, a machine consisting essentially of a revolving lap on a vertical spindle, used by a lapidary for grinding and polishing.

One skilled in laryngoscopy.

One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay.

One skilled in the laws; a writer on law. Milman. J. Morley.

A person skilled in languages. There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age. Macaulay.

One who is skilled in lithology.

One who performs the operation of cutting for stone in the bladder, or one who is skilled in the operation.

One skilled in breaking and extracting stone in the bladder.