To turn aside; slip or fall away; escape.To start aside; swerve; shy, as a horse.To move or go obliquely; sidle.To look obliquely; squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.To turn aside; give an oblique direction to; hence, to distort; put askew.To shape or form in an oblique way.To throw or hurl obliquely.To throw violently. Compare shy.Having an oblique position; oblique; turned or twisted to one side: as, a skew bridge.Distorted; perverted; perverse.In mathematics, having disturbed symmetry by certain elements being reversed on opposite sides; also, more widely, distorted.A casting on the end of a truss to which a tensionrod may be attached. It may form a cap, or be shaped to fit the impost.A carvers' chisel having the shank bent to allow the edge to reach a sunken surface.n. A deviation or distortion; hence, an error; a mistake.n. An oblique glance; a squint.n. A piebald or skew-bald animal, especially a horse.n. A skew wheel.n. 5. In architecture, thn sloping top of a buttress where it slants off against a wall; a coping mounting on a slant, as that of a gable; a stone built into the base-angle of a gable, or other similar situation, to support a coping above. Compare skew-corbel, below.Aslant; aslope; obliquely; awry; askew.n. An obsolete variant of sky.n. Same as scow.n. A cup.n. In mathematics, a regulus.