Index of English words, starting with "sk"

(1) - Skew (adv.) To throw or hurl obliquely.
(2) - Skew (adv.) To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
(3) - Skew (v. i.) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
(4) - Skew (v. i.) To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
(5) - Skew (v. i.) To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
(6) - Skew (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
(7) - Skew (a.) Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.
(8) - Skew (adv.) Awry; obliquely; askew.

(1) - Skewbald (a.) Marked with spots and patches of white and some color other than black; -- usually distinguished from piebald, in which the colors are properly white and black. Said of horses.

(1) - Skewer (v. t.) To fasten with skewers.
(2) - Skewer (n.) A pin of wood or metal for fastening meat to a spit, or for keeping it in form while roasting.