Skim

Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.

Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean.

They skim over a science in a very night superficial survey.

Ceilings are lined with fibrous asbestos, the internal plastering being reduced to skimming alone.

skimming stones

I skimmed the newspaper over breakfast.

to skim milk

to skim broth

to skim cream

Obviously, the longer cash sits around before being recorded, the more likely it is that a skimming fraud will occur.

[…] take this money without entering anything into the record-keeping system, thereby accomplishing a theft by skimming.

For a first quick appreciation of the approach, we recommend a fast reading of Chapter 1, then a skim through the figures of the next two chapters — glancing at the definitions of key concepts that appear below the figures in Chapters 2 and 3.

Two percent milk has only a fraction less fat than whole milk, so unless you are feeding a child or someone whose diet requires whole milk, skim is best.

Then you could jump 150 years and enjoy a skim across the Solent in Britain's remarkable Hovercraft.

It's a hustle, but it keeps me busy. I can take in three to three-fifty a week, more with skims.

This potential is further increased by the ease of passing on the costs of corruption and racketeering to consumers; a skim of only one percent of a construction project can amount to hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.