Definitions
To read or pass over something quickly and lightly.
Word origin
From Middle English skemen, skymen, variants of scumen, from Old French escumer (“to remove scum”), from escume (“froth, foam”), from Frankish *skūm (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *skew- (“to cover, conceal”). See scum.
Used in a sentence
“Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.”
“Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean.”
“They skim over a science in a very night superficial survey.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Read quickly”4 letters
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