SKIMMED

skim, skimmed

(adjective) 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”

SKIM

skim, skim over

(verb) read superficially

skim, skim off, cream off, cream

(verb) remove from the surface; “skim cream from the surface of milk”

skim

(verb) coat (a liquid) with a layer

skim, skip, skitter

(verb) cause to skip over a surface; “Skip a stone across the pond”

plane, skim

(verb) travel on the surface of water

scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down

(verb) examine hastily; “She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Verb

skimmed

simple past tense and past participle of skim

Source: Wiktionary

SKIM

Skim, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skimmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Skimming.] Etym: [Cf. Sw. skymma to darken. sq. root158. 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.

2. To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.

3. To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of. Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean. Hazlitt.

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.

Skim, v. i.

1. To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope.

2. To hasten along with superficial attention. They skim over a science in a very superficial survey. I. Watts.

3. To put on the finishing coat of plaster.

Skim, a.

Definition: Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed. 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.

Skim, n.

Definition: Scum; refuse. Bryskett.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition