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skewing


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Skew  \Skew\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Skewed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Skewing}.] 
  1.  To  walk  obliquely;  to  go  sidling;  to  lie  or  move 
  obliquely. 
 
  Child,  you  must  walk  straight,  without  skewing. 
  --L'Estrange. 
 
  2.  To  start  aside;  to  shy,  as  a  horse.  [Prov.  Eng.] 
 
  3.  To  look  obliquely;  to  squint;  hence  to  look  slightingly 
  or  suspiciously.  --Beau.  &  Fl 




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