Synonyms:
skim, skimmed
Meaning: used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed; "yogurt made with skim milk"; "she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter"
Usage examples
Large bats of ruddy color skimmed with their huge wings the current of the Amazon.
Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in that case it skimmed the streets.
The sails skimmed homeward on a silver sea as the west covered its rosy pink in a veil of deepest blue.
The only useful way really to read a book like that is to pore over every sentence: it is no book to be skimmed.
The liquor should stand until the next day after the head is boiled, in order to have the fat rise, and skimmed off.
He questioned me with interest on our excursions ashore and on our hunting, but seemed not to understand the Canadian's passionate craving for red meat. Then our conversation skimmed various subjects, and without being more forthcoming, Captain Nemo proved more affable.
He then squeezed the fingers of his horny hand close together, put it for a few minutes under his armpit, to make it sweat, as he said; and, taking it again out, drew it over a ladle filled with melted copper, some of which he skimmed off, and moved his hand backwards and forwards, very quickly, by way of ostentation.
In summer, milk should be kept as cool as possible; before it is strained, the pans and strainer should be rinsed with cold water, and the milk not covered until it is cold, as soon as the cream rises sufficiently, it should be skimmed, and put in a large tin bucket with a lid that fits down tight, and stirred every day.