To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.
To hurl or throw.
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 move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
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.
Askew, obliquely; awry.
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.