SKIRT
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Skirt (?), n. [OE. skyrt, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. skyrta a shirt, Sw. sk&ö;rt 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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