Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SKILL'FUL, a.

1. Knowing; well versed in any art; hence, dextrous; able in management; able to perform nicely any manual operation in the arts or professions; as, a skillful mechanic; a skillful operator in surgery.
2. Well versed in practice; as, a skillful physician. It is followed by at or in; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing.