Skew

·adv Awry; obliquely; askew.

II. Skew ·adv To throw or hurl obliquely.

III. Skew ·vi To start aside; to shy, as a horse.

IV. Skew ·vi To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.

V. Skew ·adv To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

VI. Skew ·adj Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed;

— chiefly used in technical phrases.

VII. Skew ·vi To look obliquely; to Squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

VIII. Skew ·noun A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.