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The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin. Kip leather. See Kipskin.

An osier basket used for catching fish. [Prov. Eng.]

d because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh. [Scot.] Kipper time, the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden. [Eng. & Scot.]

A name given to earthnuts of several kinds.

Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide.

cape. [Obs. except in poetry.] Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.

That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into distance. [R.] Fairholt.

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

a sportive spirit. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play Pope. So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically. Hawthorne.

An upstart. [Obs.] Ford.

One who, or that which, skips.

A small boat; a skiff. [Obs.] A little skippet floating did appear. Spenser.

In a skipping manner; by skips, or light leaps.

An upstart. [Obs.] Latimer.

To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks. The skipping king, he ambled up and down. Shak. Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. Shak.

elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook. [India] Kipling.

and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

The skipjack (Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes.

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance. He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth. Shak.

One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances. The nimble capperer on the cord. Dryden.