the most of; profit by &e. (use) 677; make a
hit &c. (succeed) 731; make a virtue of necessity; make hay while the sun shines &c. (occasion) 134. 
     Adj. skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft,
ready, gain; slick, smart &c. (active) 682; proficient, good at, up to, at home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack, accomplished; conversant &c. (knowing) 490.
     experienced, practiced, skilled, hackneyed; up in, well up in; in
practice, in proper cue; competent, efficient, qualified, capable, fitted, fit for, up to the mark, trained, initiated, prepared, primed, finished.
     clever, cute, able, ingenious, felicitous, gifted, talented, endowed;
inventive &c. 515; shrewd, sharp, on the ball &c. (intelligent) 498; cunning &c. 702; alive to, up to snuff, not to be caught with chaff; discreet.
     neat-handed, fine-fingered, nimble-fingered, ambidextrous, sure-
footed; cut out for, fitted for.
     technical, artistic, scientific, daedalian[obs3], shipshape; workman-
like, business-like, statesman-like. 
     Adv. skillfully &c. adj.; well &c. 618; artistically; with skill,
with consummate skill; secundum artem[Lat], suo Marte; to the best of one’s abilities &c. (exertion) 686. 
     Phr. ars celare artem[Lat]; artes honorabit[Lat]; celui qui veut
celui-la peut[Fr]; c’est une grande habilite que de savoir cacher sonhabilite[Fr]; expertus metuit [Lat][Horace]; es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt[Ger]; “heart to conceive the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute” [Junius]; if you have lemons, make lemonade.

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     #699.  Unskillfulness. —­ N. unskillfulness &c. adj.; want of skill &c.
698; incompetence, incompentency[obs3]; inability, infelicity, indexterity[obs3], inexperience; disqualification, unproficiency[obs3]; quackery.
     folly, stupidity &c. 499; indiscretion &c. (rashness) 863;
thoughtlessness &c. (inattention) 458 (neglect) 460; sabotage.
     mismanagement, misconduct; impolicy[obs3]; maladministration; misrule,
misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance; petticoat government.
     absence of rule, rule of thumb; bungling &c. v.; failure &c. 732;
screw loose; too many cooks.
     blunder &c. (mistake) 495; etourderie gaucherie[Fr], act of folly,
balourdise[obs3]; botch, botchery[obs3]; bad job, sad work.
     sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild-goose
chase.
     bungler &c. 701; fool &c. 501. 
     V. be unskillful &c. adj.; not see an inch beyond one’s nose; blunder,
bungle, boggle, fumble, botch, bitch, flounder, stumble, trip; hobble &c. 275; put one’s foot in it; make a mess of, make hash of, make sad work of; overshoot the mark.
     play tricks with, play Puck, mismanage, misconduct, misdirect,
misapply, missend.