skim
    adj 1: used of milk and milk products from which the cream has
           been removed; "yogurt made with skim milk"; "she can
           drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter" [syn: skim,
           skimmed]
    n 1: a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; "there was a
         thin skim of oil on the water"
    2: reading or glancing through quickly [syn: skim, skimming]
    v 1: travel on the surface of water [syn: plane, skim]
    2: move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of [syn:
       skim over, skim]
    3: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while
       waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance
       over, run down]
    4: cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
       [syn: skim, skip, skitter]
    5: coat (a liquid) with a layer
    6: remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of
       milk" [syn: skim, skim off, cream off, cream]
    7: read superficially [syn: skim, skim over]

Skim \Skim\, a.
   Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.
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   Skim coat, the final or finishing coat of plaster.

   Skim colter, a colter for paring off the surface of land.
      

   Skim milk, skimmed milk; milk from which the cream has been
      taken.
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Skim \Skim\ (sk[i^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skimmed (sk[i^]md);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Skimming.] [Cf. Sw. skymma to darken.
   [root]158. See Scum.]
   1. To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or
      lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just
      beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.
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   2. To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.
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   3. To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to
      glide swiftly along the surface of.
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            Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the
            top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the
            ocean.                                --Hazlitt.
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   4. Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in
      order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim
      a book or a newspaper.
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Skim \Skim\, v. i.
   1. To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course;
      to glide along near the surface.
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            Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,
            Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the
            main.                                 --Pope.
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   2. To hasten along with superficial attention.
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            They skim over a science in a very superficial
            survey.                               --I. Watts.
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   3. To put on the finishing coat of plaster.
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Skim

    A Scheme implementation with packages and other
   enhancements, by Alain Deutsch et al, France.

   (2000-11-02)