skive

[The same as SHIVE (q. v.).] The revolving table or lap charged with diamond-powder, on which diamonds are polished and other gems are ground. IMG:content-1551.png:[blocks in formation] "Surrounded by smaller rosettes of different kinds of colored skivers (split sheepskins), as also of Persian imitation calf and morocco." -London Echo. *skiv-er (2), 8. [SKEWER.] ski-vie, a. [SKEW.] Out of the proper direction, deranged, askew. (Scotch.) ""Ye have it,' said Peter, 'that is, not clean skivie but -""- Scott : Red gauntlet , ch. viii. skirt'-ing, pr . par., a., & s. [SKIRT, v.] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip . adj.: (See the direction; to slant; hence, to depart from the verb.) C. As substantive: I. Ord. Lang.: Material for making skirts. II. Technically : 1. Build .: A wash-board or plinth, laid around the wall of a room next to the floor. Called also Skirting-board. 2. Saddlery : A padded lining beneath the flaps of a saddle. skirting-board, s. [SKIRTING, C. II. 1.] *skirt-le , a. [Eng. skirt , s.; -le .] Without a skirt; destitute of a skirt. "And sure great Skeffington must claim our praise, For skirtle coats and skeletons of plays." Byron : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. skit, s . [Cf. Icel. skúti , skúta , skæting a scoff, a taunt; skyti , skytja, skyttà=an archer, a marks man; Dan.skytte ; Sw.skytt.] [SKITTISH.] 1. A banter, jeer. 2. A satirical or sarcastic attack; a lampoon, a burlesque. "Of these many are skits at the expense of that unfailing object of Thackeray's love of banter."-London Daily News. *3. A light, wanton wench. "[Herod] at the request of a dancing skit stroke off the head of St. John the Baptist."- Howard ( Earle of North ampton): Def. agt. Superstitious Prophecies. skit, v. t. & i. [SKIT, s.] A. Trans.: To cast reflections on. (Prov. Eng.) B. In trans.: To skip or caper about. (Scotch.) skit-tish, *skyt-tyshe, a . [Eng. skit , v.; -ish; cf. Sw. skuta =to leap; Sw. dial. skutta , skötta = to leap. Closely allied to shoot (q. v.).] 1. Shy; easily frightened. *2. Wanton, volatile, hasty. "Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits, Sets all on hazard." Shakesp .: Troilus. (Prol.) *3. Changeable, fickle. "Some men sleep in skittish fortune's hall." Shakesp. Troilus and Cre ida, iii. 3. *4. Deceitful, deceptive, untrustworthy. "Withal it is observed, that the lands in Barks hire are very skittish , and often cast their owners."- Fuller : Worthies; Barks hire. skit-tish-lý, adv. [Eng. skittish; -ly.] In a skittish manner; shyly, wantonly, changeably. "The beasts were very plump, and skittishly played as they pa ed by." -Situation of Paradise (1683), p. 93.