skirt

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The part of a garment, such as a dress or coat, that hangs freely from the waist down.
• noun A garment hanging from the waist and worn especially by women and girls.
• noun A part or attachment resembling the skirt of a garment, especially.
• noun One of the leather flaps hanging from the side of a saddle.
• noun The lower outer section of a rocket vehicle.
• noun A flexible strip hanging from the base of an air-cushion vehicle.
• noun A piece of fabric that extends over or beyond something to afford protection.
• noun A spray skirt.
• noun An outer edge; a border or margin.
• noun Offensive Slang A woman.
• intransitive verb To lie along or form the edge of; border.
• intransitive verb To pass around rather than across or through.
• intransitive verb To pass close to; miss narrowly.
• intransitive verb To evade, as by circumlocution.
• intransitive verb To lie along, move along, or be an edge or a border.

from The Century Dictionary.

• A dialectal form of squirt.
• To border; form the border or edge of; move along the edge of.
• To be or live on the border; also, to move along a border, shore, or edge.
• Specifically, in hunting, to go round hedges and gates instead of jumping over or breaking through: said of a man or dog.
• noun The lower and hanging part of a coat or other garment; the part of a garment below the waist.
• noun A woman's petticoat; the part of a woman's dress that hangs from the waist; formerly, a woman's lap.
• noun A hanging part, loose from the rest: as, the skirt of a saddle. See cut under saddle.
• noun A narrow frill, corresponding to what would now be called a ruffle.
• noun Border; edge; margin; extreme part: as, the skirts of a town.
• noun In milling, the margin of a millstone.
• noun Milit., same as base, 2.
• noun The midriff or diaphragm: so called from its appearance, as seen in butchers' meat. Also skirting.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To cover with a skirt; to surround.
• transitive verb To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of.
• transitive verb To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.
• noun The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist.
• noun obsolete A loose edging to any part of a dress.
• noun Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
• noun A petticoat.
• noun The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body.
• noun The part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist.
• noun pejorative, slang A woman.
• noun A part that serves as a border or edging.
• verb To be on or form the border of.
• verb To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist
• noun (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar
• verb form the edge of
• verb avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
• verb extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
• noun informal terms for a (young) woman
• noun a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women
• verb pass around or about; move along the border