Definitions for: Skim


[n] reading or glancing through quickly
[adj] used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed; "yogurt made with skim milk"; "she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter"
[v] read superficially
[v] move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
[v] remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk"
[v] coat with a layer; of liquids
[v] cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
[v] travel on the surface of water
[v] examine hastily



Webster (1913) Definition: Skim, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skimmed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Skimming.] [Cf. Sw. skymma to darken. [root]158. See
Scum.]
1. To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or
lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just
beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.

2. To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.

3. To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to
glide swiftly along the surface of.

Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the
top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the
ocean. --Hazlitt.

4. Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in
order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim
a book or a newspaper.


Skim, v. i.
1. To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course;
to glide along near the surface.

Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies
o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
--Pope.

2. To hasten along with superficial attention.

They skim over a science in a very superficial
survey. --I. Watts.

3. To put on the finishing coat of plaster.


Skim, a.
Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.

Skim coat, the final or finishing coat of plaster.

Skim colter, a colter for paring off the surface of land.


Skim milk, skimmed milk; milk from which the cream has been
taken.

Synonyms: cream, cream off, fat-free, fatless, glance over, nonfat, plane, rake, run down, scan, skim off, skim over, skim over, skimmed, skimming, skip, skitter

See Also: aquaplane, coat, examine, glide, read, reading, remove, see, surface, take, take away, throw, touch, withdraw

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