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Definition of Skims
1. skim [v] - See also: skim
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skims
Literary usage of Skims
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"He said, and high in indignation turn'd Tow'rd Ilion, springing swiftly, like
some steed That strains his strength in chariot-race, and skims Smoothly at ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1891)
"Another workman (3) is "pouring" the mold c, with metal from a hand-ladle ; while
a boy (4) skims the metal and prevents slag and other floating impurities ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1837)
"... flits into indistinctness, and the duck, poising its wing on the western gale,
skims the blue ridges in the south-east like the messenger of a spirit, ..."
4. The Comic History of the United States: From a Period Prior to the Discovery by John D. Sherwood (1870)
"Albert Gallatin skims American Cream. — Rembrandt Peale and Washington Allston
described. — Why Felix Grundy, 8. S. Prentiss, JJ Crittenden, Samuel Houston, ..."
5. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction, Classical Mediæval, Legendary: Famous by William Shepard Walsh (1915)
"Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn or
skims along the main. POPE: Essay on Criticism. ..."
6. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1900)
"This counterpoise Is furnished by an outrigger that skims the surface of the
water, or, as in the above case, by a more simple contrivance. 17 Vol. ..."
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