GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Found 3 definitions

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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.]
   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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   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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   Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything “Here in the skirts of the forest.”
   Shak.
   
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   A petticoat.
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   The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
   Dunglison.
   
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   Skirt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skirted; p. pr. & vb. n. Skirting.]
   To cover with a skirt; to surround.
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   Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold.
   Milton.
   
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   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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