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Skim v. t. (past & past part. skimmed; pres. part. skimming)

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.

To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.

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."

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."

To hasten along with superficial attention. "They skim over a science in a very superficial survey."

To put on the finishing coat of plaster.

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Etymology of 'Skimmed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Skimmed" Quotes from Famous Books

... the altar of Buddha. Then they removed straw-matting rainproofs which dangled from their broad shoulders to their muddy sandals. They were garbed in black silk and fastened at the belt of each was a kris, curved and flashing where the golden candle light skimmed along ...

— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts

... the wood had resounded with the shrill little cries of swallow babies, who alighted on the low trees on the border while their busy parents skimmed over the bay, or the marshy shore, and every few minutes brought food to their clamorous offspring. I had a remarkably good opportunity to make the acquaintance of this youngster—the white-bellied swallow. There were dozens of them, and the half grown trees were their chosen perches. ...

— Little Brothers of the Air • Olive Thorne Miller

... light colored juice is desired, the crushed grapes are first pressed, the juice which comes from the press being heated to about 165 deg. F., skimmed, run through a pasteurizer at a temperature of between 175 deg. and 200 deg. F. into well-sterilized containers, and then placed ...

— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick

... farm, where they were most cordially received by the farmer's happy-faced dame, who seemed delighted to see her belated friends again, and soon had them into the house to feast upon fresh-gathered strawberries and some of the thick yellow cream that she skimmed morning and night from the pans in her snowy dairy; and when they had finished, and Mr Inglis was having a quiet chat with Farmer Benson about crops, and markets, and similar matters, which Harry classed together as "all bother," ...

— Hollowdell Grange - Holiday Hours in a Country Home • George Manville Fenn

... shallow river would cross the road winding off into a valley that was overhung, on one side, by rugged precipices clothed with luxurious heath and wild ash; whilst on the other it was skirted by a long sweep of greensward, skimmed by the twittering swallow, over which lay scattered numbers of sheep, cows, brood mares, and colts—many of them rising and stretching themselves ere they resumed their pasture, leaving the spots on which they ...

— The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh • William Carleton

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