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47 words match “SKIM”

SKIM v. 9 definitions

ting or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.

The quillback. [Local, U.S.]

SKIMBLE-SCAMBLE a.

Rambling; disorderly; unconnected. [Colloq.] Such a deal of skimble-scamble stuff. Shak.

See Skimmington.

SKIMMER n. 3 definitions

One who, or that which, skims; esp., a utensil with which liquids are skimmed.

See Skimmington.

SKIMMING n. 2 definitions

The act of one who skims.

SKIMMINGLY adv.

In a skimming manner.

A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.…

SKIMP v. 4 definitions

To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]

One of a peculiar race inhabiting Arctic America and Greenland. In many respects the Eskimos resemble the Mongolian race. [Written also Esquimau.] Eskimo dog (Zoöl.), one of breed of large and powerful dogs used by the Eskimos to draw sledges. It closely resembles the gray wolf, with which it is often crossed.…

To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.

A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.

The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew.

utch auction. See under Auction. -- Dutch cheese, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk. -- Dutch clinker, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape. -- Dutch clover (Bot.), common white clover (Trifolium repens), the seed of which was largely imported into…

Same as Eskimo. It is . . . an error to suppose that where an Esquimau can live, a civilized man can live also. McClintock.

FILLED CHEESE n.

An inferior kind of cheese made from skim milk with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarine or lard, to replace the fat removed in the cream.

To take the cream from; to skim. [Prov. Eng.] Johnson.

Fleeted or skimmed milk. [Obs.] Fleeten face, a face of the color of fleeten, i. e., blanched; hence, a coward. "You know where you are, you fleeten face." Beau. & Fl.

Skimmed. [Obs.]