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Definition of skim

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Skim (v. t.) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth..

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Innuit :: Innuit (n.) An Eskimo.

Skimmer :: Skimmer (n.) Any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops..

Fleeten :: Fleeten (n.) Fleeted or skimmed milk.

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Skimmed :: Skimmed (imp. & p. p.) of Ski.

Esquimau :: Esquimau (n.) Same as Eskimo.

Skim :: Skim (a.) Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.

Cutwater :: Cutwater (n.) A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer..

Skim :: Skim (v. t.) To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream..

Skimp :: Skimp (v. i.) To save; to be parsimonious or niggardly.

Skim :: Skim (v. i.) To hasten along with superficial attention.

Kayak :: Kayak (n.) A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes..

Rabble :: Rabble (v. t.) To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron..

Flotten :: Flotten (v. t.) Skimmed.

Eskimos :: Eskimos (pl. ) of Eskim.

Skim :: Skim (v. t.) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.

Sandiver :: Sandiver (n.) A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall..

Skimmerton :: Skimmerton (n.) See Skimmington.

Eskimo :: Eskimo (n.) One of a peculiar race inhabiting Arctic America and Greenland. In many respects the Eskimos resemble the Mongolian race.

Skimping :: Skimping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skim.