Index of English words, starting with "sk"

(1) - Skulkingly (adv.) In a skulking manner.

(1) - Skull (n.) A sort of oar. See Scull.
(2) - Skull (n.) A covering for the head; a skullcap.
(3) - Skull (n.) The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.
(4) - Skull (n.) The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.
(5) - Skull (n.) A school, company, or shoal.

(1) - Skullcap (n.) The Lophiomys.
(2) - Skullcap (n.) Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.
(3) - Skullcap (n.) A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a cap for protection.

(1) - Skunk (v. t.) In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king.
(2) - Skunk (n.) Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores of the genus Mephitis and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an extremely fetid liquid, which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense.

(1) - Sky (v. t.) To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket.
(2) - Sky (v. t.) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen.
(3) - Sky (n.) The wheather; the climate.
(4) - Sky (n.) The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural.
(5) - Sky (n.) Hence, a shadow.
(6) - Sky (n.) A cloud.