skirt
skirt is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 7 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A loose edging to any part of a dress. [Obs.] 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.
- 2.Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything "Here in the skirts of the forest." Shak.
- 3.A petticoat.
- 4.The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals. Dunglison.
- 5.To cover with a skirt; to surround. Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. Milton.
- 6.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.
- 7.To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity. Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers. S. S. Smith.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- about
- abreast
- all
- alongside
- ambient
- and
- append
- around
- aside
- atmosphere
- banlieue
- beam
- beetle
- begird
- belt
- beset
- beside
- bilateral
- border
- brim
- brink
- broadside
- brow
- button
- caudate
- chaps
- cheek
- chops
- circumambient
- circumference
- circumferential
- circumfluent
- circumjacence
- circumjacent
- circumscribe
- circumvent
- coast
- collateral
- compass
- confine
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is skirt.
- What is border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything "Here in the skirts of the forest." Shak called?
- What is the diaphragm, or midriff, in animals. Dunglison called?
- What is to cover with a skirt; to surround. Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. Milton called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is to be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity. Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers. S. S. Smith called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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