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noun

Skip n.

1.

A basket. See Skep. (Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.)

2.

A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.

3.

(Mining) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.

4.

(Sugar Manuf.) A charge of sirup in the pans.

5.

A beehive; a skep.

Skip n.

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.

(Mus.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

Skip kennel, a lackey; a footboy. (Slang.)

Skip mackerel. (Zool.) See Bluefish, 1.

verb

Skip v. t.

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."

3.

To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone. (Colloq.)

Skip v. i. (past & past part. skipped; pres. part. skipping)

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?" "So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically."

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.

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"Skip" Quotes from Famous Books

... think you are not looking they skip along pretty lively, but if you look and they fear there is no time to hide, they stand quite still, pretending to be flowers. Then, after you have passed without knowing that they were fairies, they rush home and tell their mothers they have had such an adventure. The ...

— The Little White Bird - or Adventures In Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie

... enjoy, and which I cannot think is nearly so inaccurate as is commonly supposed. These descriptions are the parts which Buffon intended for the general reader, expecting, doubtless, and desiring that such a reader should skip the dry parts he had been addressing to the more studious. It is true the descriptions are written ad captandum, as are all great works, but they succeed in captivating, having been composed with all the pains a ...

— Selections from Previous Works - and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals • Samuel Butler

... ye think to do any good, If ye stand in a corner like Robin Hood? Nay, you must stout it, and face it out with the best: Set on a good countenance, make the most of the least, Whosoever skip in, look to your part, And while you live, ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II • Robert Dodsley

... man. This evening all was black to me; I despaired, my heart was as heavy as a cannon-ball—and suddenly the world is bright. Roses bloom before my feet, and the little larks are singing in the sky. I dance, I skip. How beautiful, how sublime is friendship!—better than riches, than youth, than the love of woman: riches melt, youth flies, woman snores. But friendship is—Again a glass! It ...

— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick

... gleam of her hair under the rebosa. "Silencium!" she whispered, laying a finger across her lips. "For now we'll have the mountains to frisk, and the little hills to skip. In all the Orient there blooms no flower of eloquence like ...

— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

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