Index of English words, starting with "sk"

(1) - Skip (n.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
(2) - Skip (n.) The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
(3) - Skip (n.) A light leap or bound.
(4) - Skip (v. t.) To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.
(5) - Skip (v. t.) To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.
(6) - Skip (v. t.) To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
(7) - Skip (v. i.) Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
(8) - Skip (v. i.) To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit.
(9) - Skip (n.) A beehive; a skep.
(10) - Skip (n.) A charge of sirup in the pans.
(11) - Skip (n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
(12) - Skip (n.) A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
(13) - Skip (n.) A basket. See Skep.

(1) - Skipper (n.) A ship boy.
(2) - Skipper (n.) The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.
(3) - Skipper (n.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.
(4) - Skipper (n.) The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
(5) - Skipper (n.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
(6) - Skipper (n.) A young, thoughtless person.
(7) - Skipper (n.) One who, or that which, skips.