skills

Verb

skill (third-person singular simple present skills, present participle skilling, simple past and past participle skilled)

1. (transitive) To set apart; separate.

   Synonyms:

   split

2. (dialectal, transitive) To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
   • I cannot skill of these Thy ways […]1633, George Herbert, “Justice”, in The Temple
3. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, rare, transitive) To know; to understand.
   • As for the virginals I have none here that skill of them, except the young lord.1613, Breadalbane Letters, Documents
4. (intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
5. (intransitive) To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
6. (archaic, intransitive) To make a difference; signify; matter.
   • So then the whole scripture of God, being true, whence soever this be delivered and gathered, it skilleth not […]1592, Richard Turnbull, An Exposition upon the Canonicall Epistle of Saint Jude, London: John Windet, Sermon 5, p. 67

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