v. i. to jump lightly.
Syn. -- hop, skip. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a short distance; as, it's just a hop, skip and a jump away. [ Colloq. ]
Syn. -- stone's throw. [ PJC ]

n. The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kip leather. See Kipskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. kippe. ] 1. A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill. [ Scot. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Gymnastics) A method or feat of raising the body when hanging or swinging by the arms, as for the purpose of mounting upon the horizontal bar. The legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. OE. kipen to catch, Icel. kippa to pull, snatch. Cf. Kipper. ] An osier basket used for catching fish. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. Rudyard Kipling, English author (1865-1936). He was born at Bombay, India in 1865, the son of John Lockwood Kipling, who was formerly head of the Lahore School of Industrial Art. He was educated in England and returned to India in 1880 as editor of the “Lahore Civil and Military Gazette.” He returned to England about 1889, and lived several years in the United States. While in India he published stories, sketches, and poems descriptive of India and Anglo-Indian military and civil life: “ Departmental Ditties, etc.”, “Plain Tales from the Hills”, “Mine Own People”, “Soldiers Three”, “Barrack-room Ballads, etc.”, and others. After leaving India he published “The Light That Failed, ” “Naulahka” (with Balestier), “Many Inventions, ” “The Jungle Book, ” “The Second Jungle Book, ” “The Seven Seas, ” “Captains Courageous, ” “The White Man's Burden, ” “Kim, ” “The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories, ” and others.
Syn. -- Rudyard Kipling. [ WordNet 1.5 + Century Dict. 1906 ]

prop. a. Of, pertaining to, or in the style of Rudyard Kipling. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Kippered p. pr. & vb. n. Kippering. ] To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking. “Kippered salmon.” Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. kippen to hatch, snatch, seize. Cf. Kipe. ] 1. (Zool.) A salmon after spawning. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Kipper time, the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden. [ Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A name given to earthnuts of several kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Kip + skin. ] Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Landscape. ] A landscape. [ Obs. except in poetry. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures,
Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Off + -skip, as in landskip. ] (Paint.) That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into the distance. [ R. ] Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To skip or leap over; to treat with indifference. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Skep. ] 1. A basket. See Skep. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mining) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Sugar Manuf.) A charge of sirup in the pans. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A beehive; a skep. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Skipped p. pr. & vb. n. Skipping. ] [ OE. skippen, of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. skopa run, skoppa to spin like a top, OSw. & dial. Sw. skimmpa to run, skimpa, skompa, to hop, skip; or Ir. sgiob to snatch, Gael. sgiab to start or move suddenly, to snatch, W. ysgipio to snatch. ] 1. To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day,
Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson. [ 1913 Webster ]

They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A light leap or bound. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once. Busby. [ 1913 Webster ]

Skip kennel, a lackey; a footboy. [ Slang. ] Swift. --
Skip mackerel. (Zool.) See Bluefish, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An upstart. [ Obs. ] Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, skips. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A young, thoughtless person. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus). [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. schipper. See Shipper, and Ship. ] 1. (Naut.) The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A ship boy. [ Obs. ] Congreve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. skip, E. skipper. See Ship. ] 1. A small boat; a skiff. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A little skippet floating did appear. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small round box for keeping records. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a skipping manner; by skips, or light leaps. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An upstart. [ Obs. ] Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Heb. yōm kippūr, day of atonement. ] (Jewish Antiq.) the only fast day of the Mosaic ritual, celebrated on the tenth day of the seventh month (Tishri), according to the rites described in Leviticus xvi. Also called Day of Atonement. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]