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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Skillful \Skill"ful\, a. [Written also skilful.]
1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] ``Of
skillful judgment.'' --Chaucer.
2. Possessed of or displaying, skill; knowing and ready;
expert; well-versed; able in management; as a skillful
mechanic; -- often followed by at in or of as skillful
at the organ; skillful in drawing.
And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and
such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing.
--Amos v. 16.
Syn: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit;
clever; cunning. -- {Skill"ful*ly}, adv --
{Skill"ful*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
skillfully
adv : with skill; "fragments of a nearly complete jug, skillfully
restored at the institute of archaeology" [syn: {skilfully}]
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