Skirt
Skirt , noun
[Old English skyrt, of Scand. origin; compare Icelandic skyrta a shirt, Swedish skort a skirt, skjorta a shirt. See Shirt.]
1.
The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
2.
A loose edging to any part of a dress. [Obsolete]
A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece.
3.
Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything
Here in the skirts of the forest.
4.
A petticoat.
5.
The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals. — Dunglison
Skirt , transitive verb
1.
To cover with a skirt; to surround.
Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold.
2.
To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.
When sundown skirts the moor.
Skirt , transitive verb
To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.
Savages... who skirt along our western frontiers.