3 entries under this word

Skip

Skĭp, v. i.

verbintransitive

[imp. & p. p. SKIPPED (skĭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. SKIPPING.] [Cf. Icel. skopa, skoppa, to run, O. & Prov. Sw. skimpa, to run, skumpa, skompa, to hop, skip.] To leap; to bound; to spring, as a goat or lamb.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pope.

To skip over, to pass without notice; to omit. Bacon.

Skĭp, v. t.

verbtransitive

To pass over or by; to omit; to miss; to leap over.

They who have a mind to see the issue, may skip these two chapters. Burnet.

Skĭp, n.

noun

Sense 1. A leap; a bound; a spring.

Sense 2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

Sense 3. (Mus.) A passage from one sound to another, by more than a degree at once. Busby.