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g 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.

scape. [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.

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.

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.

To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about. Then, 'tis time to dance off. Thackeray. More dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw. Shak. Shadows in the glassy waters dance. Byron. Where rivulets dance their wayward round. Wordsworth. To dance on a r…

Leaping or skipping about. [Obs.] I shot at it [a bird], but it was so desultory that I missed my aim. Gilbert White.

A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.…

To frisk; to skip; to caper. [Obs. Scot.] "The flisking flies." Gosson.

To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip. Dryden.

A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. Johnson.