(n.) 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.
(n.) A loose edging to any part of a dress.
(n.) Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything
(n.) A petticoat.
(n.) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
(v. t.) To cover with a skirt; to surround.
(v. t.) To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along
the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.
(v. t.) To be on the border; to live near the border, or
extremity.