Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Skillful

Skillful , adjective

[Written also skilful.]

1.
Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obsolete]
Of skillful judgment. — Chaucer
2.
Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing.
And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing. — Amos v. 16