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Skew   Listen
verb
Skew  v. i.  (past & past part. skewed; pres. part. skewing)  
1.
To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely. "Child, you must walk straight, without skewing."
2.
To start aside; to shy, as a horse. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.






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"Skew" Quotes from Famous Books



... making progress, and it looks (For the straight line is getting very skew) As if our forces might surround VON KLUCK'S. Meantime, on right wing there is ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 • Various

... across it in the twinkling of a bedpost, by a handsome viaduct of thirty arches on the skew principle," said Stagman. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 • Various

... again without some money or stores out of the King's Yards; the latter of which [Sir] W. Coventry said must be done, for that they were not able to raise money for them, though it was but L200 a ship: which do skew us our condition to be so bad, that I am in a total despair of ever having the nation do well. After talking awhile, and all out of heart with stories of want of seamen, and seamen's running away, and their ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... friend is," Clive would jeer from the stoep. "You keep him under your own hat. But don't come here expecting to swop a beautiful mule that cost me 20 pounds for that skew-eyed crock that will go thin as a rake after three weeks on the sour veld, a 10 pound note thrown in, and taking me for a fool into the bargain. Your horse is worth 15 pounds, ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley

... herself having seen ninety-nine winters, while Abigail had known but a paltry sixty-five, "yew allers go an' cut yer pity on the skew-gee. I don't see nothin' ter bawl an' beller erbout. I say that a'ny man what can't take kere o' himself, not ter mention his wife, should orter go ...
— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund

... oblique; as a skew bridge, skew angle, &c. Also, in Cornwall, drizzling rain. Also, a ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... A Crime for which some Poets Lines so stretch, As on themselves they Metaphor Jack Ketch. Tho small the Varnish is to Humane Name, Where Cogging Measures rob the truth of Fame. And more to do his skew'd Encomiums right, Some Persons speak by him their motly Sight: Or much like Hudibras, on Wits pretence, Some Lines for Rhyme, and some to gingle Sense. Who else would Adriel, Jotham, Hushai, fit, With loathed Amiell, for a ...
— Anti-Achitophel (1682) - Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden • Elkanah Settle et al.

... panelled rooms it is usually necessary to scribe the muntins (or uprights) to the skirting. The method is shown in Fig. 347. The bead moulding of the skirting is only partly removed, as indicated, leaving a solid portion to which the muntin is skew-nailed. ...
— Woodwork Joints - How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. • William Fairham

... swarm struck her on the way to Venus. Furthermore, one of them shorted out her engine controls, so that she swooped out of the ecliptic plane and fell into an eccentric skew orbit. When this project was first started, one of our astronomers thought he'd identified the swarm—it has a regular path of its own about the sun, though the orbit is so cockeyed that spaceships hardly ever even see the things. Anyway, ...
— Security • Poul William Anderson

... saws were a byword, and the impact of their exhibit at Philadelphia was still strong, as judged from Baldwin, Robbins' catalogue of 1894. Highly recommended was the Disston no. 76, the "Centennial" handsaw with its "skew back" and "apple handle." Jennings' patented auger bits were likewise standard fare in nearly every tool catalogue.[25] So were bench planes manufactured by companies that had been cited at Philadelphia for the excellence of ...
— Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 • Peter C. Welsh



Words linked to "Skew" :   skew correlation, inclined, align, skew-whiff, skew-eyed



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