Category:Skirt

Skirt, n. Etym: [oe. skyrt, of scand. origin; cf. Icel. skyrta a Shirt, sw. skört a skirt, skjorta a shirt. See shirt.]

1. The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; The part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a Mantle.

2. 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.

3. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything "here in the skirts Of the forest." Shak.

4. A petticoat.

5. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals. Dunglison.

Skirt Skirt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skirted; p. pr. & vb. n. Skirting.]

1. To cover with a skirt; to surround. Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. Milton.

2. 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.

Skirt Skirt, v. t.

Defn: to be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity. Savages. . . who skirt along our western frontiers. S. S. Smith.