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is given in his "Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Human Mind;" but that is a mere skit compared with this strange performance. Leslie Stephen.

To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip.

Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." L'Estrange.

Pertaining to the game of skittles. Skittle alley, an alley or court in which the game of skittles is played. -- Skittle ball, a disk or flattish ball of wood for throwing at the pins in the game of skittles.

The piked dogfish.

An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.

A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen. [Prov. Eng.]

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

A titanate of lime occurring in octahedral or cubic crystals. [Written also Perovskite.]

A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.

Doubtful; skittish. [Obs.]

posed rare element, said to be associated with cerium, yttrium, etc., in the mineral samarskite, and more recently called samarium. Symbol Dp. See Samarium.

pecurus pratensis. Meadow grass, pasture, hay, lawn. Poa, several species. Mesquite, or Muskit grass. Same as Grama grass (above). Nimble Will, a kind of drop seed. Muhlenbergia diffsa. Orchard grass, pasture and hay. Dactylis glomerata. Porcupine grass, troublesome to sheep. Northwest. Stipa spartea. Quaking grass, or…

hout a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids. Kettle pins, ninepins; skittles. [Obs.] Shelton. -- Kettle stitch (Bookbinding), the stitch made in sewing at the head and tail of a book. Knight.

ecies); -- so called from its growing in company with the mesquite tree; -- called also muskit grass, grama grass.

A rare and doubtful metallic element said to have been discovered in the mineral samarskite.

[sq. root159.] Skittles. [Obs.]

Apt to start; skittish. [R.]

Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse. [Colloq.]

Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse. [Colloq.]