A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
Where did you pick up that skill?
Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
Him so I sought, and so at last I fownd Where him that witch had thralled to her will, In chaines of lust and lewde desyres ybownd And so transformed from his former skill, That me he knew not, nether his owne ill;
Knowledge; understanding.
And Howell Dha shall goodly well indew The salvage minds with skill of just and trew;
Great, excellent.
Well, unfortunately for you, my dearest Waggipoos, I'm much more skill than you!
From Middle English skill, skille (also schil, schile), from Old Norse skil (“a distinction, discernment, knowledge”), from Proto-Germanic *skilją (“separation, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k...
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To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
I cannot skill of these Thy ways […]
To know; to understand.
As for the virginals I have none here that skill of them, except the young lord.