skirt

n. அங்கித் தொங்கல், சட்டைக் கீழ்விளிம்பு, பெண்டிர் அரைப்பாவாடை, ஓரம், விளிம்பு, எல்லை, மதிப்புக்குறைவான புறப்பகுதி, (இழி.) பெண்டு, பெண், (வினை.) ஓரமாகச் செல், விளிம்பினைச் சுற்றிச்செல், ஓரம் கடந்துசெல், அருகாகச் செல், அருகில் அமைந்திரு, ஓரமாக அமைந்திரு.

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Skirt, n. Etym: [OE. skyrt, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. skyrta a shirt, Sw. skört 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. [Obs.] 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. Addison. 3. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything "Here in the skirts of the forest." Shak. 4. A petticoat. 5. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals. Dunglison. 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, 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.