Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Skewed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Skew \Skew\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Skewed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Skewing}.]
1. To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move
obliquely.

Child, you must walk straight, without skewing.
--L'Estrange.

2. To start aside; to shy, as a horse. [Prov. Eng.]

3. To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly
or suspiciously. --Beau. & Fl.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

skewed
adj : having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the
picture was skew" [syn: {skew}]


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