SKEW
\skjˈuː], \skjˈuː], \s_k_j_ˈuː]\
Definitions of SKEW
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Awry; obliquely; askew.
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A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
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To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
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To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
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To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
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To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
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To throw or hurl obliquely.
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Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; - chiefly used in technical phrases.
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Awry; obliquely; askew.
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A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
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To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
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To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
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To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
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To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
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To throw or hurl obliquely.
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Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; - chiefly used in technical phrases.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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