Definition of skirt

• n. - 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.
• n. - A loose edging to any part of a dress.
• n. - Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything
• n. - A petticoat.
• n. - The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
• v. t. - To cover with a skirt; to surround.
• v. t. - To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.
• v. t. - To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.