Noun

Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.

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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill .

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-12-06, author=(Simon Hoggart)

, volume=189, issue=26, page=43, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Araucaria's last puzzle: crossword master dies , passage=The skill was not in creating a grid full of words, but in producing clues cryptic enough to baffle the puzzler, yet constructed so honestly that they could be solved by any intelligent person who knew the conventions.}}

(lb) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.

:(Shakespeare)

(lb) Knowledge; understanding.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Nor want we skill or art.

:(Spenser)

(lb) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.

*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)

*:Richardby a thousand princely skills , gathering so much corn as if he meant not to return.