Definition of Skirt

Skirt

1. The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
2. A loose edging to any part of a dress.
3. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything
4. A petticoat.
5. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
6. To cover with a skirt; to surround.
7. To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.
8. To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.