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Skimback :: Skimback (n.) The quillback.

Skimp :: Skimp (v. t.) To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.

Skimming :: Skimming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ski.

Skimmerton :: Skimmerton (n.) See Skimmington.

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

Doughbird :: Doughbird (n.) The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew.

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..

Fleet :: Fleet (v. i.) To take the cream from; to skim.

Scum :: Scum (v. t.) To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface of; to skim.

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

Igloo :: Igloo (n.) An Eskimo snow house.

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..

Scummer :: Scummer (n.) An instrument for taking off scum; a skimmer.

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

Skimmingly :: Skimmingly (adv.) In a skimming manner.

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

Skim :: Skim (v. i.) To put on the finishing coat of plaster.

Skimped :: Skimped (imp. & p. p.) of Skim.

Cream :: Cream (v. t.) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream..

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

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