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6 words match “SKIPPER”

SKIPPER n. 7 definitions
One who, or that which, skips.
HESPERIAN a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidæ, or skippers. -- n.
SAURY n.
e and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.
URBICOLAE n.
An extensive family of butterflies, including those known as skippers (Hesperiadæ).
WHIFF n.
smoke. But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved father falls. Shak. The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he. Longfellow.
YELLOW a.
s most accurate. See Eye. (b) (Zoöl.) A small American butterfly (Polites Peckius) of the Skipper family. Its wings are brownish, with a large, irregular, bright yellow spot on each of the hind wings, most conspicuous beneath. Called also Peck's skipper. See Illust. under Skipper, n., 5. -- Yellow tit (Zoöl.), any one…