- One who, or that which, skips. - A young, thoughtless person. - The saury (Scomberesox saurus). - The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese. - Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the
family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking
flight. - The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence,
the master, or captain, of any vessel. - A ship boy.
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