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SKILL, n. Calleo, that is to strain, stretch, reach, and with to perfect, that is, to make sound, or to reach the utmost limit. The sense of folly, error, sin, preverseness, is from wandering, deviation.

1. The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes. Thus we speak of the skill of a mathematician, of a surveyor, of a physician or surgeon, of a mechanic or seaman. So we speak of skill in management or negotiation.

2. Any particular art.


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SKILL, n. Calleo, that is to strain, stretch, reach, and with to perfect, that is, to make sound, or to reach the utmost limit. The sense of folly, error, sin, preverseness, is from wandering, deviation.

1. The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes. Thus we speak of the skill of a mathematician, of a surveyor, of a physician or surgeon, of a mechanic or seaman. So we speak of skill in management or negotiation.

2. Any particular art.

SKILL, n. [Sax. scylan, to separate, to distinguish; Ice. and Sw. skilia, Dan. skiller, to divide, sever, part; whence shield, that which separates, and hence that which protects or defends; D. scheelen, to differ; schillen, to peel or pare. Scale is from the root of these words, as in shell, Sax. scyl, sceal. In Heb. סכל is foolish, perverse, and as a verb, to pervert, to be foolish or perverse; in Ch. to understand or consider, to look, to regard, to cause to know, whence knowledge, knowing, wise, wisdom, understanding; Rab. to be ignorant or foolish; Syr. to be foolish, to wander in mind, also to cause to understand, to know, to perceive, to discern, also to err, to do wrong, to sin, to fail in duty; whence foolish, folly, ignorance, error, sin, and understanding; Sam. to be wont or accustomed, to look or behold. The same verb with ש, Heb. שבל signifies to understand, to be wise, whence wisdom, understanding, also to waste, to scatter or destroy, to bereave, also to prosper; Ch. to understand; שבלל to complete, to perfect; בלל with a prefix. This signifies also to found, to lay a foundation; Syr. to found, also to finish, complete, adorn, from the same root; Ar. شَكَلَ shakala; to bind or tie, whence Eng. shackles; also to be dark, obscure, intricate, difficult, to form, to make like, to be of a beautiful form, to know, to be ignorant, to agree, suit or become. These verbs appear to be formed on the root בל, בול to hold or restrain, which coincides in signification with the Ch. and Eth. בחל to be able, L. calleo, that is, to strain, stretch, reach, and with כלל to perfect, that is, to make sound, or to reach the utmost limit. The sense of folly, error, sin, perverseness, is from wandering, deviation, Gr. σκολιος; the sense of skill and understanding is from separation, discernment, or from taking, holding or reaching to, for strength and knowledge are allied, and often from tension. The sense of ignorance and error is from wandering or deviation, or perhaps it proceeds from a negative sense given to the primary verb by the prefix, like ex in Latin, and s in Italian. The Arabic sense of binding and shackles is from straining. The Eng. shall and should belong to its family.]

  1. The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes. Thus we speak of the skill of a mathematician, of a surveyor, of a physician or surgeon, of a mechanic or seaman. So we speak of skill in management or negotiation. – Dryden. Swift.
  2. Any particular art. [Not in use.] – Hooker.

SKILL, v.i.

  1. To be knowing in; to be dextrous in performance. [Obs.] – Spenser.
  2. To differ; to make difference; to matter or be of interest. [Obs.] – Hooker. Bacon. [This is the Teutonic and Gothic sense of the word.]

SKILL, v.t.

To know; to understand. [Obs.]


Skill
  1. Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.

    [Obs.] Shak. "As it was skill and right." Chaucer.

    For great skill is, he prove that he wrought. [For with good reason he should test what he created.] Chaucer.

  2. To know; to understand.

    [Obs.]

    To skill the arts of expressing our mind. Barrow.

  3. To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.

    [Obs.]

    I can not skill of these thy ways. Herbert.

  4. Knowledge; understanding.

    [Obsoles.]

    That by his fellowship he color might
    Both his estate and love from skill of any wight.     Spenser.

    Nor want we skill or art. Milton.

  5. To make a difference; to signify; to matter; -- used impersonally.

    Spenser.

    What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold
    About thy neck do drown thee?     Herbert.

    It skills not talking of it. Sir W. Scott.

  6. The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes; power to discern and execute; ability to perceive and perform; expertness; aptitude; as, the skill of a mathematician, physician, surgeon, mechanic, etc.

    Phocion, . . . by his great wisdom and skill at negotiations, diverted Alexander from the conquest of Athens. Swift.

    Where patience her sweet skill imparts. Keble.

  7. Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.

    [Obs.]

    Richard . . . by a thousand princely skills, gathering so much corn as if he meant not to return. Fuller.

  8. Any particular art.

    [Obs.]

    Learned in one skill, and in another kind of learning unskillful. Hooker.

    Syn. -- Dexterity; adroitness; expertness; art; aptitude; ability. -- Skill, Dexterity, Adroitness. Skill is more intelligent, denoting familiar knowledge united to readiness of performance. Dexterity, when applied to the body, is more mechanical, and refers to habitual ease of execution. Adroitness involves the same image with dexterity, and differs from it as implaying a general facility of movement (especially in avoidance of danger or in escaping from a difficalty). The same distinctions apply to the figurative sense of the words. A man is skillful in any employment when he understands both its theory and its practice. He is dexterous when he maneuvers with great lightness. He is adroit in the use od quick, sudden, and well-directed movements of the body or the mind, so as to effect the object he has in view.

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Skill

SKILL, noun Calleo, that is to strain, stretch, reach, and with to perfect, that is, to make sound, or to reach the utmost limit. The sense of folly, error, sin, preverseness, is from wandering, deviation.

1. The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes. Thus we speak of the skill of a mathematician, of a surveyor, of a physician or surgeon, of a mechanic or seaman. So we speak of skill in management or negotiation.

2. Any particular art.

SKILL, verb transitive To know; to understand.

SKILL, verb intransitive

1. To be knowing in; to be dextrous in performance.

2. To differ; to make difference; to matter or be of interest.

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