Skirt /(?)/

1. The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
2. A loose edging to any part of a dress. [Obs.]

   A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece.

3. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything
4. A petticoat.
5. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

imp. & p. p. Skirted; p. pr. & vb. n. Skirting

1. To cover with a skirt; to surround.

   Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold.

2. To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.

1. To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.

   Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers.