skimmed : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: skimmed	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skimmed adj used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed; "yogurt made with skim milk"; "she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter" Synonym(s): skim, skimmed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Skim \Skim\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Skimmed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Skimming}.] [Cf. Sw. skymma to darken. [root]158. See {Scum}.] 1. To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth. 2. To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream. 3. To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of. Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean. --Hazlitt. 4. Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper.