Hypertext Webster Gateway: "skillfully"

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

Skillful \Skill"ful\, a. [Written also skilful.]
1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] ``Of
skillful judgment.'' --Chaucer.

2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready;
expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful
mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful
at the organ; skillful in drawing.

And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and
such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing.
--Amos v. 16.

Syn: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit;
clever; cunning. -- {Skill"ful*ly}, adv. --
{Skill"ful*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

skillfully
adv : with skill; "fragments of a nearly complete jug, skillfully
restored at the institute of archaeology" [syn: {skilfully}]

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