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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



... some day, and I'll lend you a nice book. You can skip the parts you don't understand. You can read it in vacation. Perhaps you'll be able to understand all of it ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... there is so little to unravel! Some books, we all know, you must 'chew and digest'; they can only be read slowly; but some you can glance at, skim, and skip; the mere turning of the pages tells you what little worth knowing ...
— Hilda Wade - A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose • Grant Allen
... is like a fiction (but of what use is it to me to coin fictions?); on touching the grass my prey began to move, and to shift their sides, and to skip about on the land, as though in the sea. And while I both paused and wondered, the whole batch flew off to the waves, and left behind their new master and the shore. I was amazed, and, in doubt for a long time, I considered what could be the cause; ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes - and Explanations • Publius Ovidius Naso
... plane. But we'll get old Popp, and Mrs.—, Mrs.—, what'd you say your fat friend's name was? Just a select little crowd of four—and some kind of a cheerful show afterward... Jove! There's the curtain, and I must skip." ...
— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton
... began to skip about in her long, slender, worked slippers, whose insteps would spare a ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend


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