To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.
To cause to swell out; to fill.
The stomach.
The main curved portion of a knife blade.
The abdomen, especially a fat one.
The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
The womb.
The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
The lower fuselage of an airplane.
To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
To bias or distort in a particular direction.
To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
To hurl or throw.
To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
Askew, obliquely; awry.
A squint or sidelong glance.
A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
The coping of a gable.
A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
An oblique or sideways movement.
A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
A bias or distortion in a particular direction.