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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Skip" Quotes from Famous Books

... reached the middle of fifty acres, a young farmer in scarlet, sitting upright as a dart, showed the way over a new rail in the middle of a six-foot quickset. Our nag, "Leicestershire," needs no spurring, but takes it pleasantly, with a hop, skip, and jump; and by the time we had settled into the pace on the other side, the senior on the four-year-old was alongside, crying, "Push along, sir; push along, or they'll run clean away from you. The fences are all fair on the line we're going." And so they were—hedges thick, but ...

— A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses • J. S. Rarey

... brother Leopold didn't know his catechism. "I will teach your Imperial Highness to skip your lessons," said the court chaplain. "Kneel before me and read the passage over ten times ...

— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer

... your lambkins Skip, ecstatic, on the mead; See the firs dance in the breezes, Hear Pan blowing ...

— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry

... dream to crush such airy beings. Ever and again a gossamer company would soar like a spider on his magic thread, and float with a whisper of remotest music past my ear; or some bolder pigmy, out of the leaves we brushed in passing, skip suddenly across the rusty amphitheatre of my ...

— Henry Brocken - His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance • Walter J. de la Mare

... like to evade this part of Christian living, if that were possible. The Cross and all that it represents is the part of the Christian gospel that we would prefer to skip. The lives of church people reveal only too clearly how much they wish it were possible to move directly from the contemplation of the ideal to its actualization, and to bypass the experience of crucifixion and its meaning for ...

— Herein is Love • Reuel L. Howe

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