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Skip   /skɪp/   Listen
noun
Skip  n.  
1.
A basket. See Skep. (Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.)
2.
A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
3.
(Mining) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
4.
(Sugar Manuf.) A charge of sirup in the pans.
5.
A beehive; a skep.


Skip  n.  
1.
A light leap or bound.
2.
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
3.
(Mus.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
Skip kennel, a lackey; a footboy. (Slang.)
Skip mackerel. (Zool.) See Bluefish, 1.


verb
Skip  v. t.  
1.
To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
2.
To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson. "They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters."
3.
To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone. (Colloq.)


Skip  v. i.  (past & past part. skipped; pres. part. skipping)  
1.
To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; commonly implying a sportive spirit. "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?" "So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically."
2.
Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; often followed by over.





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"Skip" Quotes from Famous Books



... told me you were expecting her again, and I came to say that we cannot get the fish you ordered, for no one can go to town in this storm, and I doubt if we could find it if we did. You will have to skip the fish.' ...
— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes
... that those who claimed the greatest piety were the sorriest scoundrels in the land. "They drink and vomit," he said, "quarrel and fight, rob and pillage one another by cunning and by violence, neigh and skip from wantonness, shout and whistle, and commit fornication and adultery worse than any of the others." He watched the priests, and found them no better than the people. Some snored, wallowing in feather beds; some feasted till they became speechless; some performed dances and leaps; some passed ...
— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton
... continued, his tone rising to something of its old thunder, "that sounds like the voice of many waters, that piles the ocean into standing heaps and makes the high hills to skip like little lambs. It is a name the ancient Hebrews concealed, as Tetragrammaton, beneath a thousand devices, the name, they said, that 'rusheth through the universe,' to call upon which—that is, to utter correctly—is to call upon that ...
— The Human Chord • Algernon Blackwood
... to the Tuileries, she is supposed to be airing herself from one till four. But, hop, skip, and jump, and she is here. You know your Moliere? Well, Baron, there is nothing imaginary in ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac
... have to have the grub put up. You go over to the store room yonder and get a flannel shirt and a pair of denim pants to pull on over those you're wearing. Mr. Seaton left his camera for you. I put it on your bureau. Bring that along. Skip now!" ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow


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