'Skimmed' definitions:
Definition of 'skimmed'
From: WordNet
adjective
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" [syn: skim, skimmed]
Definition of 'Skimmed'
From: GCIDE
- Skim \Skim\ (sk[i^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skimmed (sk[i^]md); 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of. [1913 Webster]
- Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]