SKIP

noun a beehive; a skep.

2. skip ·noun a light leap or bound.

3. skip ·noun a charge of sirup in the pans.

4. skip ·vt to cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.

5. skip ·noun a basket. ·see skep.

6. skip ·vt to leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.

7. skip ·noun a basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.

8. skip ·noun a passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

9. skip ·noun an iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.

10. skip ·noun the act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

11. skip ·vi to leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds;

— commonly implying a sportive spirit.

12. skip ·vi fig.: to leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing;

— often followed by over.

13. skip ·vt to pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.