1. (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.

2. (n.) A loose edging to any part of a dress.

3. (n.) Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything

4. (n.) A petticoat.

5. (n.) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

6. (v. t.) To cover with a skirt; to surround.

7. (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.

8. (v. t.) To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.