<B>skink</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a family of small, smooth-scaled lizards, with no legs or with short, weak legs. <BR> <I>Ex. Many lizards that live on the ground can get along without any legs. Many kinds of skinks, for example, have no legs (Clifford H. Pope).</I> </DL>
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<B>skink</B> (2), transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) to pour out or draw (liquor). </DL>
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<B>skinker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect.) a bartender; tapster. <BR> <I>Ex. If the skinker can't make your Dry Martini dry enough ... (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>skinless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having no skin or having a very thin skin. <BR> <I>Ex. skinless frankfurters.</I> </DL>
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<B>skinned, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>stripped of the skin. <BR> <I>Ex. a skinned rabbit.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(British.) peeled; alert. <BR> <I>Ex. "Her boy brought me a letter. You see I asked him to keep his eyes--skinned--is that the right word?" (Graham Greene).</I> </DL>
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<B>-skinned,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) having a ______skin. <BR> <I>Ex. Dark-skinned = having a dark skin.</I> </DL>
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<B>skinner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who skins animals. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who prepares or deals in skins and furs. <BR> <I>Ex. When the skinners got through with the forests, fireweed, scrub jack-pine, blueberries, and aspen took over the ravaged land (Harper's).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=teamster.</B> <DD><B> 4. </B>fleecer. </DL>
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<B>Skinner box,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a box or cage, used in experiments with animal conditioning, in which an animal must learn to operate correctly a lever or other mechanism in order to escape punishment or obtain a reward. </DL>
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<B>Skinnerian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the ideas and theories of the American psychologist B. F. Skinner, especially his studies on controlling behavior through a system of rewards and reinforcements as practiced in operant conditioning and behavior therapy. <DD><I>noun </I> a supporter of B. F. Skinner or his theories. </DL>
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<B>skinnery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-neries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a place where skins are prepared, as for market. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) skins or furs. </DL>
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<B>skinniness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> skinny quality or condition. </DL>
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<B>skinny, </B>adjective, <B>-nier,</B> <B>-niest.</B> noun,<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>very thin; very lean. <BR> <I>Ex. The skinny boy didn't eat much.</I> (SYN) gaunt, lank. <DD><B> 2. </B>like skin. <DD><I>noun </I> information or, sometimes, gossip, rumor, etc.. <BR> <I>Ex. Wouldn't it be interesting if TV stations put critics on newscasts to probe into the efficiency of local newspapers? Will we ever hear, "Hi, this is Pam Martin and I've got the revealing skinny tonight on Lewis Grizzard ..."? (Atlanta Constitution).</I> </DL>
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<B>skinny-dip, </B>verb, <B>-dipped,</B> <B>-dipping,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><I>v.i. </I> to swim in the nude. <DD><I>noun </I> a swim in the nude. </DL>
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<B>skinny-dipper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a person who swims in the nude. </DL>
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<B>skin-pop, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-popped,</B> <B>-popping.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) to inject (a liquefied narcotic) just beneath the skin. </DL>
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<B>skint, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Slang.) without money; penniless. </DL>
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<B>skin test,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any test made on the skin, such as the Schick test or patch test, to determine susceptibility to a disease or allergic reaction to a substance. </DL>
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<B>skin-tight</B> or <B>skintight, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> fitting closely to the skin; close-fitting. </DL>
<B>skip</B> (1), verb, <B>skipped,</B> <B>skipping,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1a. </B>to leap lightly; spring; jump. <BR> <I>Ex. Lambs skipped in the fields.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to go along with light, springing movements. <BR> <I>Ex. The little girl skipped down the street.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to go bounding along a surface. <DD><B> 3. </B>to omit parts; pass from one thing to another, disregarding what is between. <BR> <I>Ex. Answer the questions in order without skipping. The art of reading is to skip judiciously (Philip G. Hamerton).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) to change quickly, as from one task, pleasure, or subject, to another. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Informal.) to leave in a hurry. <BR> <I>Ex. The revolutionary Polish officers, whom Bakunin had been to pains to procure, gave the situation up and skipped out (Edmund Wilson).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>to advance in school by being promoted past the next regular grade or grades. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to spring or leap lightly over. <BR> <I>Ex. The girls skipped rope.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to send bounding along a surface. <BR> <I>Ex. We like to skip stones on the lake.</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>to pass over; fail to notice; omit. <BR> <I>Ex. She skips the hard words when she reads.</I> (SYN) disregard. <DD><B> b. </B>to advance past in being promoted in school. <BR> <I>Ex. I skipped a grade last year.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) to dodge, avoid, or stay away from. <BR> <I>Ex. to skip school, to skip rehearsals.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Informal.) to leave (a place) in a hurry; flee. <BR> <I>Ex. The swindler has skipped town.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a light leap, spring, or jump. <BR> <I>Ex. The child gave a skip of joy.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a gait, especially of children, in which hops and steps are alternated. <DD><B> 3. </B>the act or fact of passing over; omission. <DD><B> 4. </B>that which is or may be skipped. <BR> <I>Ex. In his books there are scarcely any of those passages which, in our school days, we used to call skip (Macaulay).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Music.) a passing from one note to another more than one step away. </DL>
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<B>skip</B> (2), noun, verb, <B>skipped,</B> <B>skipping.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the captain of a team at curling or bowling. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to command or direct (a team) as skip. </DL>
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<B>skip</B> (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a bucket, box, basket, cage, or wagon in which mining or quarrying materials or men are drawn up or let down. <BR> <I>Ex. ... and then spewed out as a kind of gravel into immense containers, or skips, that hold twelve tons of the stuff each (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=skip car </B>(def. 1). </DL>
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<B>ski pants,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> lightweight, close-fitting pants with tapering trouser legs, worn by skiers. </DL>
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<B>ski patrol,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rescue and first-aid unit that patrols skiing areas. </DL>
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<B>skip-bomb, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to attack by skip bombing. </DL>
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<B>skip bombing,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a method of precision bombing in which an airplane flies just above the water toward a ship, dam, or other target, releasing its bombs so that they strike the target at or just below the level of the water, somewhat like a torpedo. </DL>
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<B>skip car,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a car used in iron- and steelmaking to carry coke, iron ore, and limestone on a track up an incline or ramp to be deposited into a blast furnace. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=skip</B> (3) (def. 1). </DL>
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<B>skip distance,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the minimum distance over which high-frequency radio waves must travel to make radio communication or broadcasting possible. </DL>
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<B>Skipetar, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an Albanian. <DD><B> 2. </B>the language of the Albanians. </DL>
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<B>skip hoist,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the incline or ramp on which skip cars carry their loads up to the blast furnace, to the head of a mine shaft, or to the top of a quarry. </DL>
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<B>skipjack, </B>noun, pl. <B>-jacks</B> or (collectively for 1) <B>-jack.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of various fishes that sometimes leap out of the water, such as a variety of tuna. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=click beetle.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Archaic.) a pert, lively, conceited fellow. </DL>
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<B>skiplane, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an airplane equipped with skis for landing and taking off on snow. </DL>
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<B>ski pole,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> either one of the two metal, cane, or fiberglass poles used by skiers to maintain balance and help climb uphill and make turns. </DL>
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<B>skippable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that may be skipped or passed over. <BR> <I>Ex. The second half of the book makes skippable reading (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
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<B>skipper</B> (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the captain of a ship, especially of a yacht or a small trading or fishing boat. <BR> <I>Ex. Anew skipper had been piped aboard (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any captain or leader. <BR> <I>Ex. the skipper of a baseball team.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to be the skipper of; captain; command. <BR> <I>Ex. He skippered one of the first paddle-wheel steamers on the upper Mississippi (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>skipper</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that skips. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of certain insects that make skipping movements, such as a maggot, that lives in cheese. <DD><B> 3. </B>any one of a group of small, mothlike insects that fly with a darting, hopping motion. <DD><B> 4. </B><B>=saury.</B> </DL>
