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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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SKIP, v.i. To leap; to bound; to spring; as a goat or lamb.
To skip over, to pass without notice; to omit.
SKIP, v.t. To pass over or by; to omit; to miss.
A basket. See Skep.
[Obs. or
Prov. Eng. *** Scot.] A basket on wheels, used in cotton
factories.
An iron bucket, which
slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
A charge of sirup in
the pans.
A beehive] a skep.
To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly
implying a sportive spirit.
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically. Hawthorne. Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in
reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a
thing; -- often followed by over.
To
leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
To pass over or by without notice; to omit;
to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a
lesson.
They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters. Bp. Burnet. To cause to skip; as, to skip a
stone.
[Colloq.] A light
leap or bound.
The act of passing over an interval from
one thing to another; an omission of a part.
A passage from one sound to
another by more than a degree at once.
Busby.
Skip kennel, a lackey; a footboy. [Slang.] Swift. -- Skip mackerel. (Zoöl.) See Bluefish, 1. | ||||||||