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SITTING: n. s. (from sit.]

What blinder bargain e'er was driv'n, 1. The posture of sitting on a seat,

Or wager laid at six and seven. Hudibras.

John once turned his mother out of doors, to 2. The act of resting on a seat.

his great sorrow; for his affairs went on at sixes Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up

and sevens.

Arbuthnot. rising.

Psalms.

The goddess would no longer wait; 3. A time at which one exhibits himself to

But, rising from her chair of state, a painter

Left all below at six and seven, Few good pictures have been finished at one Harness'd her doves, and flew to heav'n. Smitb. sitting ; neither can a good play be produced at Si'XPENCE. 1. s. [six and pence.] A coin ; a heat.

Drydea.

half a shilling. 4. A meeting of an assembly.

Where have you left the money that I gave I'll write you down; The which shall point you forth at every sitting, Oh!--sixpence that I had.

Sbakspeare. Wnat you must say.

Sbakspeare.

The wisest man might blush, I wish it may be at that sitting concluded, un- If D-lov'd sixpence more than he. Pope. less the necessity of the time press it. Bacon. SixscoʻRE. adj. [six and score.] Six 5. A course or study unintermitted.

times twenty: For the understanding of any one of St. Paul's

Sixscore and five miles it containeth in circuit. epistles, I read it all through at one sitting. Locke.

Sandys. 6. A time for which one sits, as at play, or The crown of Spain hath enlarged the bounds work, or a visit.

thereof within this last six score years, much more What more than mzdness reigns,

than the Ottomans.

Bacon, When one short sitting many hundreds drains! SIXTEE'N. adj. (sixtyne, Sax.] Six and And not enough is lett him to supply

ten. Board-wages, or a footman's livery. Dryden.

It returned the voice thirteen times; and I 7. Incubation

have heard of others that it would return sixteen Whilst the hen is covering her eggs, the male times.

Bacon. bird takes his stand upon a neighbouring bough, If men lived but twenty years, we should be saand amuses her with his songs during the whole tisfied if they died about sixteen or eighteen. time of her sitting. Addison.

Taylor. SI'TUAT E. part. adj. [from situs, Lat.] 1. Placed with respect to any thing else.

SIXTEE'NTH. adj. (sixteoða, Sax.] The He was resolved to choose a war, rather than

sixth after the tenth; the ordinal of to have Bretagne carried by France, being so

sixteen. great and opulent a duchy, and situate so opror- The first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the sixtunely to annoy England. Bacon, teenib to Immer.

1 Chroniclean Within a trading town they long abide, SIXTH. adj. (sixta, Sax.] The erst after Full fairly situate on a haven's side. Dryden. the fifth; the ordinal of six.

The eye is a part so artificially composed, and You are more clement than vile men, commodiously situate, as nothing can be contriva Who of their broken debtors take

ed better for use, ornament, or security. Ray. A sixth, letting them thrive again. Shakspeare. 2. Placed ; consisting.

There succeeded to the kingdom of England Earth hath this variety from heav'n'

James the sixth, then king of Scotland. Bacon. Of pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. SIXTH. n. so (from the adjective.] A sixth SITUATION. n. s. [from situate ; situa

part. tion, French.)

Only the other half would have been a to. 1. Local respect; position.

lerable seat for rational creatures, and five sixths Prince Cesarini has a palace in a pleasant sin of the whole globe would have been rendered tuation, and set off with many beautiful walks. useless.

Cseyne. Addison.

Si'xthly, adv. [from six.] In the sixth 2. Condition; state. Though this is a situation of the greatest ease

place. and tranquillity in human life, yet this is by no

Sixthly, living creatures have more diversity means fit to be the subject of all men's petitions Si'xTierh. adj. [risteozoða, Sax,] The

of organs than plants.

Bacon, to God.

Rogers. 3. Temporary state ; circumstances. Used tenth six times repeated; the ordinal of of persons in a dramatick scene.

sixty. Six. n. n. s. [six, Fr.] Twice three; one

Let the appearing circle of the fire be three

feet diameter, and the time of one entire circulamore than five.

tion of it the sixtietb part of a minute, in a whole No incident in the piece or play but must day there will be but 86,400 such parts. Digby. carry on the main design; all things else are like six fingers to the hand, when nature can do Si'xty. adj. (sixzig, Sax.] Six times her work with five.

Dryden. ten. That of six hath many respects in it, not only

When the boats were come within sixty yards for the days of the creation, but its natural con- of the pillar, they found themselves all bound, sideration, as being a perfect number. Brown. and could go no farther.

Bacon, Six and seven. R. S. To be at six and

Of which 7 times 9, or the year 63, is conseven, is to be in a state of disorder and ceived to carry with it the most considerable faconfusion. A ludicrous expression that

tality.

Brown. has been long in use.

SIZE: n. s. [perhaps rather cise, from incisa, All is uneven,

Lat. or from assise, Fr.] And every thing is letc at six and seven. Sbaksp.

1. Bulk; quantity of superficies; compa. In 1958 there sat in the see of Rome a fierce rative magnitude. thunderinz triar, that would set all at six and I ever verified my friends, seven, or at six and five, if you allude to his With all the size that verity name,

Bacon, Would without lapsing suffer. Sbakspeare. Bailey.

If any decayed ship be new made, it is more fit is harm; thence scathle, scaddle.] Hurt; to make her a size less than bigger. Raleigb. The distance judg'd for shot of every size,

damage.

Dict. The linstocks touch, the pond'rous ball expires.

Ska'd Dons. n. s. The embryos of bees.

Dryden.
Objects near our view are thought greater than SKAI'NSMATE. n. s. I suppose from skain,
those of a larger size, that are more remote. Locke. or skean, a knife, and mate.] A mess.
The martial goddess,

mate. It is remarkable that

mes,

Dutch, Like thee, Telemachus, in voice and size,

is a knife. With speed divine, from street to street she flies.

Pope.

Scurvy knave, I am none of his flirt gills;

I am none of his skains mates. 2. [assise, old Fr.] A settled quantity. In

Sbakspeare. the following passage it seems to signify SKATE. n. s. (rceadda, Sax.] the allowance of the table : whence they

1. A flat sea fish. say a sizer at Cambridge.

2. A sort of shoe armed with iron, for 'T is not in thee

sliding on the ice. To cut off my train, to scant my sizes,

They sweep And, in conclusion, to oppose the bolt

On sounding skates a thousand different ways, Against my coming in.

Sbakspeare. In circling poise swift as the winds. Tborson. 3. Figurative bulk; condition.

SKEAN. n. s. (Irish and Erse ; ragene, This agrees too in the contempt of men of a less size and quality.

L'Estrange.

Sax.] A short sword; a knife.
They do not consider the difference between

Any disposed to do mischief may under his elaborate discourses, delivered to princes or par

mantle privily carry his head-piece, skean, or Jiaments, and a plain sermon, for the middling

pistol, tu be always ready.

Spenser. or lower size of people.

Swift.

The Irish did not fait in courage or fierceness, 4. [sisa, Italian.] Any viscous or glutin

but being cnly armed with darts and skeines, it

was rather an execution than a tight upon them. ous substance.

Baion. To SIZE, v. a. (from the noun.]

SKEG. n. s. A wild plum. 1. To adjust or arrange according to size. SK!'G',ER. n. s. The foxes weigh the geese they carry,

Little salmons, called skeggers, are bred of And, ere they venture on a stream,

such sick salmon that might not go to the sea ; Know how to size themselves and them. Hudib. and though they abound, yet never thrive to Two troops so match'd were never to be found,

any bigress.

Walton. Such bodies built for strength, of equal age, Skein, n. so [escaigne, Fr.] A knot of In stature siz'd.

Dryden. thread or silk wound and doubled. 2. [from fassise.] To settle; to fix.

Why art thou then exasperate, thou idle imThere was a statute for dispersing the stan- material skein of sley'd silk, thou tassel of a prodard of the exchequer throughout England; digal's purse?

Sbakspeare. thereby to size weights and ineasures. Bacon. Qur'stile should be like a skein of silk, to be 3. To cover with glutinous matter; to be. found by the right thread, not ravelled or persmear with size.

plexed. Then all is a knot, a heap: Ben Jons. SI’zep, adj. [from sizc.] Having a par.

Besides, so lazy a brain as mine is grows soon

weary when it has so entangled a skein as this to ticular magnitude.

unwind

Digby.
What my love is, proof hath made you know;

SKE'I.EION. η. 5. [σκελετος.]
And as my love is siz'd, my fear is so. Sbaksp.
That will be a great horse to a Weishman,

1. [In anatomy.) The bones of the body which is but a small one to a Flening; having, preserved together as much as can be in from the different breed of their countries, their natural situation.

Quincy. taken several sized ideas, to which they com- When rattling bones together fly, pare their great and their liccle.

Locke. From the four corners of the sky; Si'ZEABLE, adj. (from size.] Reasonably

When sinews o'er the skaletons are spread, bulky; of just proportion to others.

Those cloth'd with flesh, and life inspires the He should be purged, sweated, voniited, and

dead,

Dryden. starved, till he come to a sizeable bulk. Arbuth.

Thouch the patient may from other causes be SI'Zër or Servitor. n. s. A certain rank

exceedingly emaciated, and appear as a ghastly

skilrior, covered only with a dry skin, yet noof students in the universities.

thing but the ruin and destruction of the lungs They make a scramble for degree:

denominates a consumption.

Blackmort. Masters of all sorts and of all ages,

I thought to meet, as late as heav'n might grant, Keepers, sub-sisers, lackeys, pages. Bp.Corbett. A sérleton, ferocious, tall, and gaunt, SIZERS, n. s. See SCISSARS.

Whose loose teeth in their naked sockets shook, A buttrice and pincers, a hammer and naile, And grinn'd terrific, a Sardonian look. Harte. An apron and sizers for head and for taile. Tusser.

3. The compages of the principal parts. Si'ziNESS. n. s. [from sizy.] Glutinous- The great structure itself, and its great inteness; viscosity.

grals, the heavenly and elementary bodies, are In rheumatisms, the siziness passes off thick framed in such a position and situation, the great contents in the urine, or glutinous sweats. Floyer.

skeleton of the world.

Hale. Cold is capable of producing a siziness and The schemes of any of the arts or sciences viscosity in the blood.

Arbuthnot. may be analysed in a sort of skeleton, and repreSi'zy. adj. [from size.] Viscous; gluti

sented upon tables, with the various dependene cies of their several parts.

Watts. noi18.

The blood is sizy, the alkalescent salts in the SKE'LLUM. n. s. [skelm, German.) A serum producing coriaceous concretions.

villain ; a scoundrel.

Skinner. Arbuthnot. SKEP. n. s. (rcephen, lower Saxon, to SKA'DDLE. n. s. [sceаdnisse, Sax. scath draw.]

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Pore.

1. A sort of basket, narrow at the bottom, In a poor skif he passid the bloody main, and wide at the top, to fetch corn in.

Choak'd with the slaughter'd bodies of his trair.

Dryden. A pitchforke, a doongforke, seeve, skep, and a bin.

Tusser.

On Garraway cliffs

A savage race, by shipwreck fed, 2. In Scotland, the repositories where the

Lie waiting for the founder'd skifs, bees iay their boney is still called skep. And strip the bodies of the dead. Swift. SKEPTICK. n. s. [cuinino; ; sceptique, Fr.] SKI'LFUL. adj. (skill and full.] Know

One who doubts, or pretends to doubt, ing; qualified with skill; possessing of every thing.

any art; dexterous; able. It is, in the Bring the cause unto the bar; whose autho

following examples, used with of; at, rity none must disclaim, and least of all those sceptices in religion.

and in, before the subject of skill. Of Decay of Piety. Survey

seems poetical, at ludicrous, in popular Nature's extended face, then scepticks say,

and proper. In this wide field of wonders can you find

His father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work No art? Blackmore. in gold and silver.

2 Cbronicles. With too much knowledge for the sceptick's They shall call the husbandınen to mourning, side,

and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. With too much weakness for the stoick's pride,

Amos. Man hangs between.

Wil Vafer is skilful at finding out the ridiculThe dogmatist is sure of every thing, and the ous side of a thing, and placing it in a new light. scepticke believes nothing. Waits.

Tatlor. SKŁ'PTICAL.adi. [from skeptick.] Doubt

Say, Stella, feel you no content, ful; pretending to universal doubt. Reflecting on a life well spent; May the Father of mercies confirm the scep

Your skilful hand employ'd to save tical and wavering minds, and so prevent us,

Despairing wretches from the grave:

And then supporting with your store
that stand fast, in all our doings, and further us
with liis continual help.

Beniley.
Those whom you dragz'd from death before.

Strin. SKE'PTICISM. n. s: [scepticisme, French ; Instructors should not only be skilful in those

from skeptick ] Universal doubt ; pre- sciences which they teach; but have skill in the tence or profession of universal doubt. method of teaching, and patience in the pracHlaid by my natural diffidence and scepticism for

tice.

Watts. a while, to take up that doymatick way. Dryden. SKI'LFULLY, adv. [from skilful.] With SKETCH. n. s. (schedula, Lat.] An out- skill; with art; with uncominon abili

line ; a rough draught; a first draught; ty; dexterously. a first plan.

As soon as he came near me, in fit distance, I shall not attempt a character of his present with much fury, but with fury skilfully guided, majesty, having already given an imperfect he ran upon me.

Sidney. sketcb of it.

Audison. Ulysses builds a ship with his own hands, as As the lightest sketib, if justly trac'd,

skilfully as a ship.-right.

Brooms Is by ill colouring but the more disgrac'd, Ski'rULNESS. n. s. [from skilful.] Art; So by false learning is good sense detac'd. Pope.

ability ; dexterousness. TO SKETCH. v. n. (from the noun.]

He fed them according to the integrity of his 1. To draw, by tracing the outline.

heart, and guided them by the skiljulness of his If a picture is daubed with many glaring co- hands.

Psalms. lours the vulgar eye admires it: whereas he Skill. n. s. (skil, Islandick.) judges very contemptuously of some admirable

1. Knowledge of any practice or art; design sketcbed out only with a black pencil

, though the hand of Raphael.

Watts.

readiness in any practice ; knowledge; 2. To plais, by giving the first or princi

dexterity ; artfulness.

Skill in the weapon is nothing without sack. pal notion.

Shakspeare. The reader I'll leave in the midst of silence,

You have to contemplate those ideas which I have only As little skill to fear, as I have purpose sketcbed, and which every man must finish for

To put you to't.

Sbakspeare. himself.

Dryden.

Oft nothing srofits more SKE'WER, n. s. [skere, Danish.) A wooden Thın self-esteem, grounded on just and right, or iron pin, used to keep meat in form. Well manag' d; of that skillthe morethou know'st, Sweetbreads and collops were with skewers The more she will acknowledge thee her head. prick'd

Milton. About the sides.

Dryden. I will from wond'rous principles ordain
I once may overlook

A race unlike the first, and try iny skill again.
A skewer sent to table by my cook.
King

Dryden. From his rug the skewer he takes,

Phocion the Athenian general, then ambasAnd on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift. sador from the state, by his great wisdom and

Send up meat well stuck with skewers,to make skill at negotiations, diverted Alexander from it look round; and an iron skewer, when rightly the conquest of Athens, and restored the Atheemployed, will make it look handsomer. Swift. nians to his favour.

Swift. TO SKEWER. v. a. (from the noun.] ro 2. Any particular art. faston with skewers.

Learned in one skill, and in another kind of SKIFF. n. so [esquife, Pr. scapha, Latin.]

learning unskilful.

Hooker. A small light boat.

TO SKILL. v.n. (skilia, Islandick.] If in two skiffs of cork a loadstone and steel 1. To be knowing in; to be dexterous be placed within the orb of their activities, the at : with of. one doth not move, the other standing still; but They that skill not of so heavenly matter, both steer into each other,

Brown. All that they know not, envy or admire. Spens. SKI The overseers were all that could skill of in- The surface of the sea is covered with its struments of musick.

2 Chronicles. bubbles, while it rises, which they skim off into One man of wisdom, experience, learning, their boats, and afterwards separate in pots. All. and direction, may judge better in those things Whilome I've seen her skim the clouced cream, that he can skill of, than ten thousand others And press from spongy curds the milky stream. that be ignorant. bilgift.

G.zy. 2. [skilia, Islandick, signifies to distin- 3. To brush the surface slightly; to pass

guish.] To differ; to make difference; very near the surface.
to interest ; to matter. Not in use. Nor seeks in air her humble flight to raise,
Whether the commandments of God in scrip-

Content to skim the surface of the seas. Dryden. ture be general or special, it skilleth not. Hooker. The swallow skims the river's wat'ry face. What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold

Dryden. About thy neck do drown thee; raise thy head, A winged eastern blast just skimming o'er Take stars for money; stars not to be told The ocean's brow, and sinking on the shore. By any art: yet to be purchas'd.

Prior, None is so wasteful as the scraping dame : 4. To cover superficially. Improper. She loseth three for one; her soul, rest, fame. Perhaps originally'skin.

Herbert.

Dang'rous flats in secret ambush lay, He intending not to make a summer business Where the false tides shim o'er the cover'd land, of it, but a resolute war, without term pretixed, And seamen with dissembled depths betray. until he had recovered France, it skilled not much

Dryden. when he began the war, especially having Calais at his back, where he might winter, Bacon.

TO SKIM. v. n. To pass lightly; to glide SKILLED. adj. [from skill.] Knowing ;

along.

Thin airy shapes o'er the furrows rise, dexterous; acquainted with : with of

A dreadful scene! and skim before his eyes. Add. poetically, with in popularly.

When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to Of these nor skilld vor studious. Milton.

throw, Moses in all the Egyptian arts was skill'd, The line too labours, and the words move slow; When heav'nly power that chosen vessel fill'd. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,

Denbim.

Flies o’er th' unbending corn, and skims along He must be very little skilled in the world, the main.

Pope. who thinks that a voluble tongue shall accom- Such as have active spirits, who are ever skinnpany only a good understanding.

Locke.

ming over the surface of things with a volatile SKI’LLESS. adj. [from skill.] Wanting spirt, will fix nothing in their memory. Woits, skill; artless. Not in use.

They skim over a science in a very superticial Nor have I seen

survey, and never lead their disciples into the Alore that I may call men than you:

depths of it.

Watts. How features are abroad I'm skillness of. Sbaksp. SKI'M BLESKAMBLE, adj. [a cant word

Jealously what might befal your travel, Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,

formed by reduplication from scamble.] Unguided and unfriended, often prove

Wandering ; wild. Rough and unhospitable.

Sbakspeare.

A couching lion and a ramping cat,
Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,

And such a deal of scimbleskumble stuff,
Mishápen in the conduct of them both,

As puts me from my faith. Sbakspeare. Like powder in a skilless soldier's Hask

SKI'MMER. 1. s. [from skim.] A shallow Is set on fire.

Sbakspeare. vessel with which the scum is taken off. SKI'LLET. n. s. [escuelleite, Ir.] A small Wash your wheat in three or four waters, kettle or boiler:

stirring it round; and with a skimmer, each When light-wing’d toys

time, take off the light.

Niwtimer. Of feacher'd Cupid foil with wanton dulness SKIMMI'LK, 9. s. skim and milk.] Milk My speculative and offic'd instruments,

from which the cream bas been taken. Let bouse-wives make a skillet of my helm,

Then cheese was brought : says Slouch, this And all indign and base adversities

e'en shall roll; Miake head against my estimation, Sbakspeare. This is skin:milk, and therefore it shall go. King.

Break all the wax, and in a kettle or skillet set it over a soft aire.

Mortimer.

SKIN. n. s. [skind, Danish.] SKILT. n. s. [a word used by Cleaveland,

1. The natural covering of the Aesh. It of which I know not either the etymo

consists of the cuticle', outward skin, or logy or meaning.)

scarfskin, which is thin and insensible ; Smeitymnus! ha! what art?

and the cutis, or inner skin, extremely Syriack? or Arabick? or Welsh? What skilt? sensible. Ape all the bricklayers that Babel built. Cleavel. The body is consumed to nothing, the skin TO SKIM. v. a. (properly to scum, from fecling rough and dry like leather.

Harvey. scum; escume, French.)

The priest on skins of offerings takes his ease, 1. To clear off from the upper part, by

And nightly visions in his slumber sees. Dryden. passing a vessel a little below the sur

2. Hide ; pelt ; that which is taken from face.

animals to make parchment or leather.

On whose top he strow'd
My coz Tom, or his coz Mary,
Who hold the plough or skim the dairy,

A wild goat's shaggy skin; and then bestow'd
My fav'rite books and pictures sell.

Prior.
His own couch on it.

Cbafman. 2. To take by skimming.

3. The body; the person : in ludicrous She boils in kettles must of wine, and skims speech. With leaves the dregs that overflow the brims.

We meet with many of these dangerous civiDryden.

lities, wherein it is hard for a man to save both His principal studies were after the works of

L' Estrange Titian, whose cream he had saimmed. Dryd. 4. A busk.

his skin and his credit.

a

Swift.

TO SKIN. v. a. [from the noun.)

Was not Israel a derision unto thee? Was he 1, To flay; to strip or divest of the skin. found among thieves ? For since thou spakest

The beavers run to the door to make their of him, thou skippedst for joy: Jeremiah. escape, are there entangled in the nets, seized The queen, bound with love's powerful'st by the Indians, and immediately skinned. Ellis.

charm, 2. To cover with the skin.

Sat with Pigwiggen arm in arm: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,

Her merry maids, that thought no harm, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,

About the room were skipping: Drayton. Infects unseen.

At
Shakspeare

spur or switch no more he skipt, Authority, though it err like others,

Or mended pace, then Spaniard whipt. Hudibras.

The enıth-born race
Has yet a kind of medicine in itself,
Thai skins thic vice o' th' top. Shakspeare.

O'er ev'ry hill and verdant pasture stray,
The wound was skinned; but the strength of

Skip o'er the lawns, and by the rivers play: his thigh was not restored. Dryden.

Blackmore. It only patches up and skins it over, but

John skipped from room to room, ran up stairs reaches not the bottom of the sore. Locke.

and down stairs, peeping into every cranny, The last stage of healing, or skinning over, is

Arbuthnot. called cicatrization.

Sharp.

Thus each hand promotes the pleasing pain,

And quick sensations skip from vein to vein.Popz. 3. To cover superficially.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day; What I took for solid earth was only heaps

Had he thy reason would he skip and play? Pope. of rubbish, skinned over with a covering of ve

2. To SKIP over. getables.

Addison.

To pass without noSKI'NFLINT. n. s. (skin and flint.] A

tice.

Pope Pius 11. was wont to say, that the former niggardly person.

popes did wisely to set the lawyers a-work to deSKINK, n.5. (rcenc, Saxon.]

bate, whether the donation of Constantine the 1. Drink; any thing potable.

Great to Sylvester of St. Peter's patrimony were 2. Pottage.

good or valid in law or no; the better to skip over Scotch skink, which is a pottage of strong

the matter in fact, whether there was ever any nourishment, made with the knees and siness such thing at all or no.

Bacon, of beef, but long boiled : jelly also of knuckles A gentleman made it a rule, in reading, to of veal.

Bacon. skip over all sentences where he spied a note of TO SKINK. V. n. (rcencan, Saxon.] To

admiration at the end. serve drink. Both noun and verb are To SKIP. v. a. (esquirer, French.] wholly obsolete.

I. To miss; to pass. SKI'N KER. n. s. [from skink.] One that

Let not thy sword slip one:

Pity not honour'd age for his white beard; serves drink.

He is an usurer.

Sbakspeare. I give thee this pennyworth of sugar, clapt

They who have a mind to see the issue, may even now into my hand by an under skinker;

skip these two chapters, and proceed to the folo one that never spake other English in his life,

lowing.

Burnet. than eight shillings and six-pence, and you are welcome, sir.

Sbakspeare.

2. In the following example skip is active Hang up all the poor hop-drinkers,

or neuter, as over is thought an adverb Cries old Sym, the king of skinkers. Ben Jons. or preposition.

His mother took the cup the clown had iillid: Although to engage very far in such a metaThe reconciler bowl went round the board, physical speculation were untit, when I only enWhich, emptied, the rude skinder still restor’d, deavour to explicate fluidity, yet we dare not

Dryden. quite skip it over, lest we be accused of overSKI'NNED. adj. [from skin.] Having skin. seeing it.

Boyle. When the ulcer becomes foul, and discharges SKIP. n. s. [from the verb.) A light leap a nasty ichor, the edges in process of time tuck or bound. in, and, growing skinned and hard, vive it the He looked very curiously upon hindself, somename of callous.

Sbarp. times fetching a little skip, as if he had said his SKI'NNER. n. s. [from skin.] A dealer in strength had not yet forsaken him. Sidney. skins, or pelts.

You will make so large a skip as to cast yourSKI'NNINESS. n. s. [from skinny.] The

self from the land into the water. More. quality of being skinny,

SKIPJACK, n. s. (skip and jack.] An up

start. SKI'NNY, adj. (from skin.] Consisting

The want of shame or brains does not preonly of skin; wanting flesh.

sently entitle every little skipjack to the board's Her choppy finger laying

end in the cabinet.

L'Estrange. Upon her skinny lips.

Sbakspeare. Lest the asperity of these cartilages of the SKI'PKENNEL. n. 5. (skip and kennel.] A windpipe should hurt the gullet, which is ten- lackey; a footboy. der, and of a skinny substance, these annulary SKIPPER. n. so (schipper, Dutch.] A gristles are not made round; but where the

shipmaster or shipboy; gullet touches the windpipe, there, to fill up the

Are you not afraid of being drowned too? circle, is only a soft membrane, which may easily No, not I, says the skipper. L'Estrange. give way.

Ray. No doubt you will return very much improvHis fingers meet

ed.Yes, refined like a Dutch skipper from In skinny films, and shape his oary feet. Addison.

a whale fishing.

Congreve. TO SKIP. v. n. [squittire, Italian; esquirer, SKI'PPET. n. s. (probably from skiff:] A

Fr. I know not whether it may not small boat. Not used.

come, as a diminutive, from scape.] Upon the bank they sitting did espy 1. To fetch quick bounds; to pass by A dainty damsel, dressing of her hair, quick leaps; to bound lightly and joy.

By whom a little skippet floating did appear. fully,

Fairy Queen.

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