Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 89
Skepticize (v. i.) To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything. [R.]
To skepticize, Where no one else will . . . hesitate. -- Shaftesbury.
Skerries (n. pl. ) of Skerry.
Skerry (n.) A rocky isle; an insulated rock. [Scot.]
Sketch (n.) An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.
Syn: Outline; delineation; draught; plan; design.
Usage: Sketch, Outline, Delineation. An outline gives only the bounding lines of some scene or picture. A sketch fills up the outline in part, giving broad touches, by which an imperfect idea may be conveyed. A delineation goes further, carrying out the more striking features of the picture, and going so much into detail as to furnish a clear conception of the
whole. Figuratively, we may speak of the outlines of a plan, of a work, of a project, etc., which serve as a basis on which the subordinate parts are formed, or of sketches of countries, characters, manners, etc., which give us a general idea of the things described. -- Crabb.
Sketched (imp. & p. p.) of Sketch.
Sketching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sketch.
Sketch (v. t.) To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.
Sketch (v. t.) To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.
Syn: To delineate; design; draught; depict.
Sketch (v. i.) To make sketches, as of landscapes.
Sketch (n.) Preliminary drawing for later elaboration; "he made several studies before starting to paint" [syn: sketch, study]
Sketch (n.) A brief literary description [syn: sketch, vignette].
Sketch (n.) Short descriptive summary (of events) [syn: sketch, survey, resume].
Sketch (n.) A humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine [syn: cartoon, sketch].
Sketch (v.) Make a sketch of; "sketch the building" [syn: sketch, chalk out].
Sketch (v.) Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas" [syn: sketch, outline, adumbrate].
Sketchbook (n.) A book of sketches or for sketches.
Sketchbook (n.) A book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn [syn: sketchbook, sketch block, sketch pad].
Sketcher (n.) One who sketches.
Sketcher (n.) Someone who draws sketches.
Sketcher (n.) An implement for sketching.
Sketchily (adv.) In a sketchy or incomplete manner. "Sketchily descriptive." -- Bartlett.
Sketchily (adv.) In a sketchy incomplete manner; "he explained sketchily"; "the dishes were only sketchily washed."
Sketchiness (n.) The quality or state of being sketchy; lack of finish; incompleteness.
Sketchiness (n.) Incompleteness of details.
Sketchy (a.) Containing only an outline or rough form; being in the manner of a sketch; incomplete.
The execution is sketchy throughout; the head, in particular, is left in the rough. -- J. S. Harford.
Sketchy (a.) Giving only major points; lacking completeness; "a sketchy account"; "details of the plan remain sketchy" [syn: sketchy, unelaborated].
Skew (adv.) 傾斜地 Awry; obliquely; askew.
Skew (a.) 斜的，歪的，偏的；歪曲的，曲解的；【數】（偏）斜的 Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.
Skew arch, An oblique arch. See under Oblique.
Skew back. (Civil Engin.) (a) The course of masonry, the stone, or the iron plate, having an inclined face, which forms the abutment for the voussoirs of a segmental arch.
Skew back. (Civil Engin.) (b) A plate, cap, or shoe, having an inclined face to receive the nut of a diagonal brace, rod, or the end of an inclined strut, in a truss or frame.
Skew bridge. See under Bridge, n.
Skew curve (Geom.), A curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve. See Plane curve, under Curve.
Skew gearing, or Skew bevel gearing (Mach.), toothed gearing, generally resembling bevel gearing, for connecting two shafts that are neither parallel nor intersecting, and in which the teeth slant across the faces of the gears.
Skew surface (Geom.), A ruled surface such that in general two successive generating straight lines do not intersect; a warped surface; as, the helicoid is a skew surface.
Skew symmetrical determinant (Alg.), A determinant in which the elements in each column of the matrix are equal to the elements of the corresponding row of the matrix with the signs changed, as in (1), below. (1) 0 2 -3-2 0 53 -5 0 (2) 4 -1 71 8 -2-7 2 1.
Note: This requires that the numbers in the diagonal from the upper left to lower right corner be zeros. A like determinant in which the numbers in the diagonal are not zeros is a skew determinant, as in (2), above.
Skew (n.) (Arch.) 偏斜，歪斜 [U] [C] A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
Skewed (imp. & p. p.) of Skew.
Skewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skew.
Skew (v. i.) 偏斜，歪斜；側轉；斜視 [（+at）] To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
Child, you must walk straight, without skewing. -- L'Estrange.
Skew (v. i.) To start aside; to shy, as a horse. [Prov. Eng.]
Skew (v. i.) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously. -- Beau. & Fl.
Skew (v. t.) 使偏斜，使歪斜；歪曲；扭曲；使有偏見 To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
Skew (v. t.) To throw or hurl obliquely.
Skew (a.) Having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew" [syn: {skew}, {skewed}].
Skew (v.) Turn or place at an angle; "the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed" [ant: {adjust}, {align}, {aline}, {line up}].
Skewbald (a.) Marked with spots and patches of white and some color other than black; -- usually distinguished from piebald, in which the colors are properly white and black. Said of horses.
Skewer (n.) A pin of wood or metal for fastening meat to a spit, or for keeping it in form while roasting.
Meat well stuck with skewers to make it look round. -- Swift.
Skewered (imp. & p. p.) of Skewer.
Skewering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skewer.
Skewer (v. t.) To fasten with skewers.
Skewer (n.) A long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted.
Skewer (v.) Drive a skewer through; "skewer the meat for the BBQ" [syn: skewer, spit].
Skid (n.) A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan; also, by extension, a hook attached to a chain, and used for the same purpose.
Skid (n.) A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure. Specifically:
Skid (n.) pl. (Naut.) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo.
Skid (n.) One of a pair of timbers or bars, usually arranged so as to form an inclined plane, as form a wagon to a door, along which anything is moved by sliding or rolling.
Skid (n.) One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc.
Skid (n.) (Aeronautics) A runner (one or two) under some flying machines, used for landing.
Skid (n.) A low movable platform for supporting heavy items to be transported, typically of two layers, and having a space between the layers into which the fork of a fork lift can be inserted; it is used to conveniently transport heavy objects by means of a fork lift; -- a skid without wheels is the same as a pallet.
Skid (n.) pl. Declining fortunes; a movement toward defeat or downfall; -- used mostly in the phrase on the skids and hit the skids.
Skid (n.) [From the v.] Act of skidding; -- called also side slip.
Skidded (imp. & p. p.) of Skid.
Skidding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skid.
Skid (v. t.) To protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause to move on skids.
Skid (v. t.) To check with a skid, as wagon wheels. -- Dickens.
Skid (v. t.) (Forestry) To haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway.
Skid (v. i.) To slide without rotating; -- said of a wheel held from turning while the vehicle moves onward.
Skid (v. i.) To fail to grip the roadway; specif., to slip sideways on the road; to side-slip; -- said esp. of a cycle or automobile.
Skid (n.) One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
Skid (n.) A restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation [syn: brake shoe, shoe, skid].
Skid (n.) An unexpected slide [syn: skid, slip, sideslip].
Skid (v.) Slide without control; "the car skidded in the curve on the wet road."
Skid (v.) Elevate onto skids.
Skid (v.) Apply a brake or skid to.
Skid (v.) Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn: skid, slip, slue, slew, slide].
SKID, () Service Key IDentifier (X509v3, RFC 3280)
Skiddaw (n.) The black guillemot.
Skidpan (n.) See Skid, n., 1.
Skied () imp. & p. p. of Sky, v. t.
Skiey (a.) See Skyey. -- Shelley.
Skiff (n.) A small, light boat.
The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff. -- Milton.
Skiff caterpillar (Zool.), The larva of a moth ({Limacodes scapha); -- so called from its peculiar shape.
Skiffed (imp. & p. p.) of Skiff.
Skiffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skiff.
Skiff (v. t.) To navigate in a skiff. [R.]
Skiff (n.) Any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor.
Skiffling (n.) (Quarrying) Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.
Skilder (v. i.) To beg; to pilfer; to skelder. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Skilful (a.) See Skilful.
Skilful (a.) Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching" [syn: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful].
Skill (n.) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause. [Obs.] -- Shak. "As it was skill and right." -- Chaucer.
For great skill is, he prove that he wrought. [For with good reason he should test what he created.] -- Chaucer.
Skill (n.) Knowledge; understanding. [Obsoles.]
That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. -- Spenser.
Nor want we skill or art. -- Milton.
Skill (n.) The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes; power to discern and execute; ability to perceive and perform; expertness; aptitude; as, the skill of a mathematician, physician, surgeon, mechanic, etc.
Phocion, . . . by his great wisdom and skill at negotiations, diverted Alexander from the conquest of Athens. -- Swift.
Where patience her sweet skill imparts. -- Keble.
Skill (n.) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address. [Obs.]
Richard . . . by a thousand princely skills, gathering so much corn as if he meant not to return. -- Fuller.
Skill (n.) Any particular art. [Obs.]
Learned in one skill, and in another kind of learning unskillful. -- Hooker.
Syn: Dexterity; adroitness; expertness; art; aptitude; ability.
Usage: Skill, Dexterity, Adroitness. Skill is more intelligent, denoting familiar knowledge united to readiness of performance. Dexterity, when applied to the body, is more mechanical, and refers to habitual ease of execution. Adroitness involves the same image with dexterity, and differs from it as implaying a general facility of movement (especially in avoidance of danger or in escaping from a difficalty). The same distinctions apply to the figurative sense of the words. A man is skillful in any employment when he understands both its theory and its practice. He is dexterous when he maneuvers with great lightness. He is adroit in the use od quick, sudden, and well-directed movements of the body or the mind, so as to effect the object he has in view.
Skill (v. t.) To know; to understand. [Obs.]
To skill the arts of expressing our mind. -- Barrow.
Skill (v. i.) To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance. [Obs.]
I can not skill of these thy ways. -- Herbert.
Skill (v. i.) To make a difference; to signify; to matter; -- used impersonally. -- Spenser.
What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold About thy neck do drown thee? -- Herbert.
It skills not talking of it. -- Sir W. Scott.
Skill (n.) An ability that has been acquired by training [syn: skill, accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment].
Skill (n.) Ability to produce solutions in some problem domain; "the skill of a well-trained boxer"; "the sweet science of pugilism" [syn: skill, science].
Skill, () A somewhat peculiar blend between Franz-Lisp and C, with a large set of various CAD primitives. It is owned by Cadence Design Systems and has been used in their CAD frameworks since 1985. It's an extension language to the CAD framework (in the same way that Emacs-Lisp extends GNU Emacs), enabling you to automate virtually everything that you can do manually in for example the graphic editor. Skill accepts C-syntax, fun(a b), as well as Lisp syntax, (fun a b), but most users (including Cadence themselves) use the C-style.
[Jonas Jarnestrom ].
(1995-02-14)
Skill, () contracts. The art of doing a thing as it ought to be done.
Skill, () Every person who purports to have skill in la business, and undertakes for hire to perform it, is bound to do it with ordinary skill, and is responsible civilly in damages for the want of it; 11 M. & W. 483; and sometimes he is responsible criminally. Vide Mala Praxis; 2 Russ. on Cr. 288,
Skill, () The degree of skill and diligence required, rises in proportion to the value of the article, and the delicacy of the operation: more skill is required, for example, to repair a very delicate mathematical instrument, than upon a common instrument. Jones' Bailm. 91; 2 Kent, Com. 458, 463; 1 Bell's Com. 459; 2 Ld. Raym. 909, 918; Domat, liv. 1, t. 4, Sec. 8, n. 1; Poth. Louage, n. 425; Pardess. n. 528; Ayl. Pand. B. 4, t. 7, p. 466; Ersk. Inst. B. 3, t. 3, Sec. 16; 1 Rolle, Ab. 10; Story's Bailm. Sec. 431, et seq.; 2 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 144.
Skilled (a.) Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
Skilled (a.) Having or showing or requiring special skill; "only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team"; "a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience"; "a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow"; "a skilled trade" [ant: unskilled].
Skillet (n.) A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat.
Skillet (n.) A pan used for frying foods [syn: frying pan, frypan, skillet].
Skillful (a.) [Written also skilful.] Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] "Of skillful judgment." -- Chaucer.
Skillful (a.) Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing.
And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing. -- Amos v. 16.
Syn: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit; clever; cunning. -- Skill"ful*ly, adv. -- Skill"ful*ness, n.
Skillful (a.) Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching" [syn: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful].
Skillful (a.) Done with delicacy and skill; "a nice bit of craft"; "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot" [syn: nice, skillful].
Skilligalee (n.) A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army. [Written also skilligolee, skillygalee, etc.]
Skilling (n.) A bay of a barn; also, a slight addition to a cottage. [Prov. Eng.]
Skilling
(n.) A
money od account in Sweden,
Skill-less (a.) Lacking skill. -- Shak.
Skilts (n. pl.) A kind of large, coarse, short trousers formerly worn. [Local, U. S.] -- Bartlett.
Skilty (n.) The water rail. [Prov. Eng.]
Skimmed (imp. & p. p.) of Skim.
Skimming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skim.
Skim (v. t.) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.
Skim (v. t.) To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.
Skim (v. t.) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean. -- Hazlitt.
Skim (v. t.) Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper.
Skim (v. i.) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. -- Pope.
Skim (v. i.) To hasten along with superficial attention.
They skim over a science in a very superficial survey. -- I. Watts.
Skim (v. i.) To put on the finishing coat of plaster.
Skim (a.) Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.
Skim coat, The final or finishing coat of plaster.
Skim colter, A colter for paring off the surface of land.
Skim milk, Skimmed milk; milk from which the cream has been taken.
Skim (a.) Used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed; "yogurt made with skim milk"; "she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter" [syn: skim, skimmed].
Skim (n.) A thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; "there was a thin skim of oil on the water."
Skim (n.) Reading or glancing through quickly [syn: skim, skimming].
Skim (v.) Travel on the surface of water [syn: plane, skim].
Skim (v.) Move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of [syn: skim over, skim].
Skim (v.) Examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down].
Skim (v.) Cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond" [syn: skim, skip, skitter].
Skim (v.) Coat (a liquid) with a layer.
Skim (v.) Remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk" [syn: skim, skim off, cream off, cream].
Skim (v.) Read superficially [syn: skim, skim over].
Skim, () A Scheme implementation with packages and other enhancements, by Alain Deutsch et al, France.
(2000-11-02)
Skrim (n.) Scum; refuse.
Skimback (n.) (Zool.) The quillback. [Local, U.S.]
Compare: Quillback
Quillback, (n.) (Zool.) An American fresh-water fish ({Ictiobus cyprinus syn. Carpiodes cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and skimback.
Skimble-scamble (a.) Rambling; disorderly; unconnected. [Colloq.]
Such a deal of skimble-scamble stuff. -- Shak.
Skimitry (n.) See Skimmington.
Skimmer (n.) One who, or that which, skims; esp., a utensil with which liquids are skimmed.
Skimmer (n.) (Zool.) Any species of longwinged marine birds of the genus Rhynchops, allied to the terns, but having the lower mandible compressed and much longer than the upper one. These birds fly rapidly along the surface of the water, with the lower mandible immersed, thus skimming out small fishes. The American species (R. nigra) is common on the southern coasts of the United States. Called also scissorbill, and shearbill.
Skimmer (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops.
Skimmer (n.) A rapid superficial reader.
Skimmer (n.) A cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids.
Skimmer (n.) A stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown [syn: boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat].
Skimmer (n.) Gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food
Skimmerton (n.) See Skimmington.
Skimming (n.) The act of one who skims.
Skimming (n.) That which is skimmed from the surface of a liquid; -- chiefly used in the plural; as, the skimmings of broth.
Skimming (n.) The act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid.
Skimming (n.) Reading or glancing through quickly [syn: skim, skimming].
Skimming (n.) Failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on It.
Skimming (n.) The act of brushing against while passing [syn: grazing, shaving, skimming].
Skimmingly (adv.) In a skimming manner.
Skimmington (n.) 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.
Skimped (imp. & p. p.) of Skimp.
Skimping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skimp.
Skimp (v. t.) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
Skimp (v. t.) To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
Skimp (v. i.) To save; to be parsimonious or niggardly. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
Skimp (a.) Scanty. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
Skimp (v.) Work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially [syn: skimp, scant].
Skimp (v.) Limit in quality or quantity [syn: scant, skimp].
Skimp (v.) Subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp" [syn: scrimp, stint, skimp].
Skimp (v.) Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance" [syn: stint, skimp, scant].
Skin (n.) (Anat.) The external membranous integument of an animal.
Note: In man, and the vertebrates generally, the skin consist of two layers, an outer nonsensitive and nonvascular epidermis, cuticle, or skarfskin, composed of cells which are constantly growing and multiplying in the deeper, and being thrown off in the superficial, layers; and an inner sensitive, and vascular dermis, cutis, corium, or true skin, composed mostly of connective tissue.
Skin (n.) The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.
Skin (n.) A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1. "Skins of wine." -- Tennyson.
Skin (n.) The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
Skin (n.) (Naut.) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.