4. A petticoat.
5. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals. Dunglison.
SKIRT
Skirt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skirted; p. pr. & vb. n. Skirting.]
1. To cover with a skirt; to surround. Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. Milton.
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." Tennyson.
SKIRT
Skirt, v. t.
Defn: To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.
Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers. S. S. Smith.
SKIRTING
Skirt"ing, n.
1. (Arch.)
Defn: A skirting board. [R.]