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Skew   Listen
verb
Skew  v. i.  (past & past part. skewed; pres. part. skewing)  
1.
To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely. "Child, you must walk straight, without skewing."
2.
To start aside; to shy, as a horse. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.





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"Skew" Quotes from Famous Books



... this country; and, at some future day, his merits will be, I trust, recorded on a monument, by the side of the benevolent Howard, in St. Paul's. Sir Richard Phillips is a modest, unostentatious man; he makes but little skew and parade; but the hand of oppression seldom bears heavily upon a fellow-citizen, that Sir Richard is not found, in some way or other, endeavoring to alleviate his distress. I speak feelingly, for my persecutions ...
— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 2 • Henry Hunt


Words linked to "Skew" :   skewed, skew arch, reorient, skew-whiff, inclined, skewness, skew correlation


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