Defn: To pass or glide lightly or with quick touches at intervals; to skip; to skim.
Some kinds of ducks in lighting strike the water with their tails first, and skitter along the surface for a feet before settling down. T. Roosevelt.
SKITTISH
Skit"tish, a. Etym: [See Skit, v. t.]
1. Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." L'Estrange.
2. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. "Skittish
Fortune's hall." Shak.
— Skit"tish*ly, adv.
— Skit"tish*ness, n.
SKITTLE
Skit"tle, a.
Defn: Pertaining to the game of skittles. Skittle alley, an alley or court in which the game of skittles is played. — Skittle ball, a disk or flattish ball of wood for throwing at the pins in the game of skittles.
SKITTLE-DOG
Skit"tle-dog`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The piked dogfish.
SKITTLES Skit"tles, n. pl. Etym: [Of Scand. origin. sq. root159. See Shoot, v. t., and cf. Shuttle, Skit, v. t.]