Skirting board, the board running around a room on the wall next the
floor; baseboard.
Skit (?), v. t. [Prov. E. skitto slide, as adj., hasty, precipitate, of
Scand. origin, and akin to E. shoot, v.t.; cf. Icel. skyti, skytja,
skytta, a marksman, shooter, skjta to shoot, skta a taunt. √159.
See Shoot.] To cast reflections on; to asperse. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Crose.
Skit, n. 1. A reflection; a jeer or gibe; a sally; a brief satire; a
squib. Tooke.
A similar vein satire upon the emptiness of writers is given in his
"Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Human Mind;" but that is
a mere skit compared with this strange performance.
Leslie Stephen.