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Skill   /skɪl/   Listen
noun
Skill  n.  
1.
Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause. (Obs.) "As it was skill and right." "For great skill is, he prove that he wrought." (For with good reason he should test what he created.)
2.
Knowledge; understanding. (Obsoles.) "That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight." "Nor want we skill or art."
3.
The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes; power to discern and execute; ability to perceive and perform; expertness; aptitude; as, the skill of a mathematician, physician, surgeon, mechanic, etc. "Phocion,... by his great wisdom and skill at negotiations, diverted Alexander from the conquest of Athens." "Where patience her sweet skill imparts."
4.
Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address. (Obs.) "Richard... by a thousand princely skills, gathering so much corn as if he meant not to return."
5.
Any particular art. (Obs.) "Learned in one skill, and in another kind of learning unskillful."
Synonyms: Dexterity; adroitness; expertness; art; aptitude; ability. Skill, Dexterity, Adroitness. Skill is more intelligent, denoting familiar knowledge united to readiness of performance. Dexterity, when applied to the body, is more mechanical, and refers to habitual ease of execution. Adroitness involves the same image with dexterity, and differs from it as implaying a general facility of movement (especially in avoidance of danger or in escaping from a difficalty). The same distinctions apply to the figurative sense of the words. A man is skillful in any employment when he understands both its theory and its practice. He is dexterous when he maneuvers with great lightness. He is adroit in the use od quick, sudden, and well-directed movements of the body or the mind, so as to effect the object he has in view.


verb
Skill  v. t.  To know; to understand. (Obs.) "To skill the arts of expressing our mind."


Skill  v. i.  
1.
To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance. (Obs.) "I can not skill of these thy ways."
2.
To make a difference; to signify; to matter; used impersonally. "What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold About thy neck do drown thee?" "It skills not talking of it."





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"Skill" Quotes from Famous Books



... these powers and leaders of civilization will become the guides and guardians of Egyptian interests. The reforms already sanctioned with a new era of justice and economy will insure the confidence of British capitalists; the resources of Egypt will be developed by engineering skill that will control the impetuosity of the Nile and protect the Delta alike from the scarcity of drought, and from the risk of inundation. The Nile sources, which from the earliest times had remained a mystery, ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker
... the privilege of remaining densely ignorant, or he could become learned. Life in a monastery was not so very different from what it was outside—a monk gravitated to where he belonged. The young man showed such skill as a debater, and such commendable industry at all of his tasks, from scrubbing the floor to expounding Scripture, that he was sent to the neighboring University of Erfurt. From there he was transferred to the University of Wittenberg. In the ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators • Elbert Hubbard
... placed the broken arm on it so as to make it flat, and with perfect skill set the bone, adjusted the splinters, ...
— The Black Tulip • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
... struggling still in vain,—till every effort of her mind, every thought of her daily life, was pervaded by a conviction that as she grew older from year to year, the struggle should be more intense. The swimmer when first he finds himself in the water, conscious of his skill and confident in his strength, can make his way through the water with the full command of all his powers. But when he begins to feel that the shore is receding from him, that his strength is going, that the footing ...
— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope
... that the bill was only fo'pence—six and a quarter cents, Spanish—and that it was the fashion now, so she was told, "to have they buttons diffunt, so they could dentrify they clothes," I settled without remark. Mammy's financial skill and resource ...
— Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden


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