SKIRT, n.
1. The lower and loose part of a coat or other garment the part below the waist as the skirt of a coat or mantle. 1 Samuel 15
2. The edge of any part of dress.
3. Border edge margin extreme part as the skirt of a forest the skirt of a town.
4. A woman's garment like a petticoat.
5. The diaphragm or midriff in animals.
To spread the skirt over, in Scripture, to take under one's care and protection Ruth 3
SKIRT, To border to form the border or edge or to run along the edge as a plain skirted by rows of trees a circuit skirted round with wood.
SKIRT, To be on the border to live near the extremity.
Savages--who skirt along our western frontiers.