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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

The dictionary's 1913 edition of the 1900 International, renamed Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, has in modern times been used in various free online resources, as its copyright lapsed and it became public domain.
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Skip (skip)
n.(?)
Skip
[See Skep.]
  1. A basket. See Skep.
    [Obs. or Prov. Eng. *** Scot.]
  2. A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
  3. An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
  4. A charge of sirup in the pans.
  5. A beehive] a skep.

Skip

Skip (skip)
v. i.
Skip
  1. 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.

  2. 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

Skip (skip)
v. t.
Skip
  1. To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
  2. 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.

  3. To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.
    [Colloq.]

Skip

Skip (skip)
n.
Skip
  1. A light leap or bound.
  2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
  3. A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
    Busby.

    Skip kennel, a lackey; a footboy. [Slang.] Swift. -- Skip mackerel. (Zoöl.) See Bluefish, 1.













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