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   Skirt (?), n. [OE. skyrt, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. skyrta a shirt, Sw. skört a skirt, skjorta a shirt. See Shirt.]
   1. The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, “the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle”.
   
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   2. A loose edging to any part of a dress. [Obs.]
   
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   A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece. Addison.
   
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   3. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything “Here in the skirts of the forest.”  Shak.
   
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   4. A petticoat.
   
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   5. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.  Dunglison.
   
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   Skirt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skirted; p. pr. & vb. n. Skirting.]
   1. To cover with a skirt; to surround.
   
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   Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. Milton.
   
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   2. To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, “the plain was skirted by rows of trees”. “When sundown skirts the moor.”  Tennyson.
   
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   Skirt, v. t. To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.
   
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   Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers. S. S. Smith.
   
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