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

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

A titanate of lime occurring in octahedral or cubic crystals. [Written also Perovskite.]

The skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.

A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin. Cooper.

A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.

See Epidermis.

The skin of a seal; the pelt of a seal prepared for use, esp. of the fur seal; also, a garment made of this material.

A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war.

The office or authority of a seraskier.

The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.

See Seraskier.

See Seraskierate.

The American pinefinch (S. pinus); -- called also pine siskin. See Pinefinch.

The siscowet.

The common European sheldrake.

Evasive. [Obs.] Milton.

The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.

Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.

A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.