Skip

n.	1.	A basket. See Skep.
	2.	A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
	3.	(Mining) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
	4.	(Sugar Manuf.) A charge of sirup in the pans.
	5.	A beehive; a skep.
v. i.	1.	To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; - commonly implying a sportive spirit. [imp. & p. p. Skipped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Skipping.] The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? - Pope. So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically. - Hawthorne.
	2.	Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; - often followed by over.
v. t.	1.	To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
	2.	To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson. They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters. - Bp. Burnet.
	3.	To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.
n.	1.	A light leap or bound.
	2.	The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
	3.	(Mus.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once. Skip kennel a lackey; a footboy. Skip mackerel (Zool.) See Bluefish, 1. - Swift.

Noun	1.	skip - a gait in which steps and hops alternate
	2.	skip - a mistake resulting from neglect Synonyms: omission
Verb	1.	skip - bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" Synonyms: skip over, pass over, jump
	2.	skip - intentionally fail to attend; "cut class" Synonyms: cut
	3.	skip - jump lightly Synonyms: hop, hop-skip
	4.	skip - leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town" Synonyms: vamoose, decamp
	5.	skip - bound off one point after another Synonyms: bound off
	6.	skip - cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond" Synonyms: skitter, skim

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