Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 90
Skin (n.) (Naut.) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
Skin friction, Skin resistance (Naut.), The friction, or resistance, caused by the tendency of water to adhere to the immersed surface (skin) of a vessel.
Skin graft (Surg.), A small portion of skin used in the process of grafting. See Graft, v. t., 2.
Skin moth (Zool.), Any insect which destroys the prepared skins of animals, especially the larva of Dermestes and Anthrenus.
Skin of the teeth, Nothing, or next to nothing; the least possible hold or advantage. -- Job xix. 20.
Skin wool, Wool taken from dead sheep.
Skinned (imp. & p. p.) of Skin.
Skinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skin.
Skin (v. t.) To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.
Skin (v. t.) To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. -- Shak.
Skin (v. t.) To strip of money or property; to cheat. [Slang]
Skin (v. i.) To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
Skin (v. i.) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited. [College Cant, U.S.]
Skin (n.) A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body" [syn: skin, tegument, cutis].
Skin (n.) An outer surface (usually thin); "the skin of an airplane."
Skin (n.) Body covering of a living animal [syn: hide, pelt, skin].
Skin (n.) A person's skin regarded as their life; "he tried to save his skin."
Skin (n.) The rind of a fruit or vegetable [syn: peel, skin].
Skin (n.) A bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal.
Skin (v.) Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter].
Skin (v.) Bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of; "The boy skinned his knee when he fell" [syn: skin, scrape].
Skin (v.) Remove the bark of a tree [syn: bark, skin].
Skin (v.) Strip the skin off; "pare apples" [syn: skin, peel, pare].
Skinbound (a.) Having the skin adhering closely and rigidly to the flesh; hidebound.
Skinbound disease. (Med.) See Sclerema neonatorum, under Sclerema.
Skinched (imp. & p. p.) of Skinch.
Skinching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skinch.
Skinch (v. t. & i.) To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving. [Prev. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
Skin-deep (a.) Not deeper than the skin; hence, superficial. -- Lowell.
Skin-deep (a.) Penetrating no deeper than the skin: "her beauty is only skin-deep."
Skinflint (n.) A penurious person; a miser; a niggard. -- Sir W. Scott.
Skinflint (n.) A selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [syn: niggard, skinflint, scrooge, churl].
Skinfuls (n. pl. ) of Skinful.
Skinful (n.) As much as a skin can hold.
Skinful (n.) A quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk; "someone had to drive me home last night because I had a skinful."
Skink (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincidae, common in the warmer parts of all the continents.
Note: The officinal skink ({Scincus officinalis) inhabits the sandy plains of South Africa. It was believed by the ancients to be a specific for various diseases. A common slender species ({Seps tridactylus) of Southern Europe was formerly believed to produce fatal diseases in cattle by mere contact. The American skinks include numerous species of the genus Eumeces, as the blue-tailed skink ({Eumeces fasciatus) of the Eastern United States. The ground skink, or ground lizard ({Oligosoma laterale) inhabits the Southern United States.
Skinked (imp. & p. p.) of Skink.
Skinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skink.
Skink (v. t.) To draw or serve, as drink. [Obs.]
Bacchus the wine them skinketh all about. -- Chaucer.
Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove. -- Shirley.
Skink (v. i.) To serve or draw liquor. [Obs.]
Skink (n.) Drink; also, pottage. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Skink (n.) Alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide [syn: skink, scincid, scincid lizard].
Skinker (n.) One who serves liquor; a tapster.
Skinless (a.) Having no skin, or a very thin skin; as, skinless fruit.
Skinless (a.) Having no skin [ant: skinned].
Skinner (n.) One who skins.
Skinner (n.) One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.
Skinner (n.) United States actor (1858-1942) [syn: Skinner, Otis Skinner].
Skinner (n.) United States actress noted for her one-woman shows (1901-1979) [syn: Skinner, Cornelia Otis Skinner].
Skinner (n.) United States psychologist and a leading proponent of behaviorism (1904-1990) [syn: Skinner, Fred Skinner, B. F. Skinner, Burrhus Frederic Skinner].
Skinner (n.) A person who prepares or deals in animal skins.
Skinner (n.) A worker who drives mules [syn: muleteer, mule skinner, mule driver, skinner].
Skinniness (n.) Quality of being skinny.
Skinniness (n.) The bodily property of lacking flesh [syn: skinniness, scrawniness].
Skinny (a.) Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." -- Shak.
He holds him with a skinny hand. -- Coleridge.
Skinny (a.) Being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy].
Skinny (a.) Of or relating to or resembling skin.
Skinny (a.) Fitting snugly; "a tightly-fitting cover"; "tight-fitting clothes" [syn: tight-fitting, tightfitting, tight fitting, tightly fitting, skinny].
Skinny (a.) Giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man" [syn: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, skinny].
Skinny (n.) Confidential information about a topic or person; "he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner."
Skip (n.) A basket. See Skep. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Skip (n.) A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
Skip (n.) (Mining) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
Skip (n.) (Sugar Manuf.) A charge of sirup in the pans.
Skip (n.) A beehive; a skep.
Skipped (imp. & p. p.) of Skip.
Skipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skip.
Skip (v. i.) To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying 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.
Skip (v. i.) Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
Skip (v. t.) To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
Skip (v. t.) To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.
They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters. -- Bp. Burnet.
Skip (v. t.) To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone. [Colloq.]
Skip (n.) A light leap or bound.
Skip (n.) The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
Skip (n.) (Mus.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
Skip kennel, A lackey; a footboy. [Slang.] -- Swift.
Skip mackerel. (Zool.) See Bluefish, 1.
Skip (n.) A gait in which steps and hops alternate.
Skip (n.) A mistake resulting from neglect [syn: omission, skip].
Skip (v.) Bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" [syn: jump, pass over, skip, skip over].
Skip (v.) Intentionally fail to attend; "cut class" [syn: cut, skip].
Skip (v.) Jump lightly [syn: hop, skip, hop-skip].
Skip (v.) Leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town" [syn: decamp, skip, vamoose].
Skip (v.) Bound off one point after another [syn: skip, bound off].
Skip (v.) Cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond" [syn: skim, skip, skitter].
SKIP, () Simple Key-management for Internet Protocols (Internet, cryptography, Sun).
Skipjack (n.) An upstart.
Skipjack (n.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
Skipjack (n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.
Skipjack (n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
Skipper (n.) One who, or that which, skips.
Skipper (n.) A young, thoughtless person.
Skipper (n.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
Skipper (n.) The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
Skipper (n.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.
Skipper (n.) The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.
Skipper (n.) A ship boy.
Skippet (n.) A small boat; a skiff.
Skippet (n.) A small round box for keeping records.
Skippingly (adv.) In a skipping manner; by skips, or light leaps.
Skirl (v. t. & i.) To utter in a shrill tone; to scream.
Skirl (n.) A shrill cry or sound.
Skirlcock (n.) The missel thrush; -- so called from its harsh alarm note.
Skirlcrake (n.) The turnstone.
Skirling (n.) A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.
Skirling (n.) A small trout or salmon; -- a name used loosely.
Skirmished (imp. & p. p.) of Skirmish.
Skirmishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skirmish.
Skirmish (v. i.) To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.
Skirmish (v. i.) A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops.
Skirmish (v. i.) A slight contest.
Skirmisher (n.) One who skirmishes.
Skirmisher (n.) Soldiers deployed in loose order, to cover the front or flanks of an advancing army or a marching column.
Skirr (v. t.) To ramble over in order to clear; to scour.
Skirr (v. i.) To scour; to scud; to run.
Skirr (n.) A tern.
Skirret (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Sium, / Pimpinella, Sisarum). It is a native of Asia, but has been long cultivated in Europe for its edible clustered tuberous roots, which are very sweet.
Skirrhus (n.) See Scirrhus.
Skirt (n.) 裙子，下擺，邊緣，郊區 The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
Skirt (n.) A loose edging to any part of a dress.
Skirt (n.) Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
Skirt (n.) A petticoat.
Skirt (n.) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
Skirted (imp. & p. p.) of Skirt.
Skirting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skirt.
Skirt (v. t.) 位於…邊緣，裝邊於，回避 (v. i.) 位於邊緣 To cover with a skirt; to surround.
Skirt (v. t.) To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.
Skirt (v. t.) To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.
Skirt (n.) Cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist.
Skirt (n.) A garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women.
Skirt (n.) (Fungi) A remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar [syn: {annulus}, {skirt}].
Skirt (n.) Informal terms for a (young) woman [syn: {dame}, {doll}, {wench}, {skirt}, {chick}, {bird}].
Skirt (v.) Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" [syn: {hedge}, {fudge}, {evade}, {put off}, {circumvent}, {parry}, {elude}, {skirt}, {dodge}, {duck}, {sidestep}].
Skirt (v.) Pass around or about; move along the border; "The boat skirted the coast."
Skirt (v.) Form the edge of.
Skirt (v.) Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property" [syn: {surround}, {environ}, {ring}, {skirt}, {border}].
Skirting (n.) A skirting board.
Skirting (n.) Skirts, taken collectivelly; material for skirts.
Skit (v. t.) To cast reflections on; to asperse.
Skit (n.) A reflection; a jeer or gibe; a sally; a brief satire; a squib.
Skit (n.) A wanton girl; a light wench.
Skittish (v. t.) Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt.
Skittish (v. t.) Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle.
Skittle (a.) 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.
Skittle (n.) A bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles [syn: ninepin, skittle, skittle pin].
Skittle (v.) Play skittles.
Skittle-dog (n.) (Zool.) The piked dogfish.
Skittles (n. pl.) An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
Skittles (n.) A bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins [syn: ninepins, skittles].
Skitty (n.) (Zool.) A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen. [Prov. Eng.]
Skive (n.) The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
Skive (v. t.) To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).
Skive (v.) Remove the surface of; "skive leather."
Skiver (n.) An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
Skiver (n.) The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins.