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tion; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.

One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited t…

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

A skilled alchemist. [Obs.]

One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.

One skilled in agrostology.

One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection.

A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.

A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

One skilled in arithmetic.

One skilled in coat armor or heraldry. Cussans.

A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.

A man skilled in an art or in arts. [Obs.] Bacon.

One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.

One skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear.

One skilled in bacteriology.

One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations.

One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.