Skip

skip, v. i. [skipped (skipt), -ping.] To leap, bound, spring as a goat or lamb; to pa without noa. tice, make omi ions, — v. t. To pa over or by, omit, mi , leap over. — n. A leap; bound; spring; or act of pa ing over an interval from one thing to -tTanother; an omi ion of a part. — Skip'per, n. A dancer; the cheese maggot: a kind of fish. — Skip'jack, m. An upstart. (Entom.) One of a family of coleopterous insects remarkable for leaping to a rev considerable height when placed upon their Dacks. (Ichth.) The name of several kinds of fish, esp. of the blue -fish. — Skip'ping-rope, n. A small rope used by children in skipping, "jumping rope," or leaping up and down. v. t.