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Definition of Skites

1. skite [v] - See also: skite

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Skites

skirter skirters skirting skirting(a) skirtings skirting board skirtless skirtlike skirts skirt chaser

skirt of tasses skis skit skite skited skites (current term) skiting skits skitter skittered

skitterier skitteriest skittering skitters skittery skittish skittishly skittishness skittishnesses skittle

Literary usage of Skites

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"The edge of the axe, at tie first stroke, skites off the bai k of the bluff old bole like winking; sud as the disconcerted genius looks up, a crow angrily ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1840)
"Mount Athos possesses 860 churches or chapels, viz. 200 in the monasteries, 300 in the skites, 200 in the cells, and about 160 in ..."

3. American Journal of Education by Barnard (1882)
"... in the United skites." Without the remotest thought of ignoring the great services of others in securing local action in this line of improvement, ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1904)
"... was fully aware of the controversy then existing between the United >skites and the state of Texas as to the ownership of the county, and perfected the ..."

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