Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Skip \Skip\, n.
   1. A light leap or bound.

   2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to
      another; an omission of a part.

   3. (Mus.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a
      degree at once. --Busby.

   {Skip kennel}, a lackey; a footboy. [Slang.] --Swift.

   {Skip mackerel}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Bluefish}, 1.