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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Skirt

Skirt, n.

noun

(18), n. [A-S. scyrtan, gescyrtan, to shorten; Icel. skirta, skyrta, an under-garment, a shirt; Sw. skört, a skirt, skjorta, a shirt. Cf. SHIRT.]

  1. The lower and loose part of a coat or other garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat or mantle.
  2. The edge of any part of dress. “A small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before.” Addison.
  3. Border; edge; margin; extreme part. “Here in the skirts of the forest.” Shak.
  4. A woman’s garment like a petticoat.
  5. The diaphragm or midriff in animals.

To sit upon one’s skirts, to meditate revenge against him. [Obs.] Howell.

Skĭrt, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SKIRTED; p. pr. & vb. n. SKIRTING.] To border; to form the border or edge of; or to run along the edge of; as, a plain skirted by rows of trees. “When sundown skirts the morn.” Tennyson.

Skĩrt, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To be on the border; to live near the extremity. “Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers.” S. S. Smith.