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noun

Sky n. (pl. skies)

1.

A cloud. (Obs.) "(A wind) that blew so hideously and high, That it ne lefte not a sky In all the welkin long and broad."

2.

Hence, a shadow. (Obs.) "She passeth as it were a sky."

3.

The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; sometimes in the plural. "The Norweyan banners flout the sky."

4.

The wheather; the climate. "Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies." Note: Sky is often used adjectively or in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sky color, skylight, sky-aspiring, sky-born, sky-pointing, sky-roofed, etc.

Sky blue, an azure color.

Sky scraper (Naut.), a skysail of a triangular form.

Under open sky, out of doors. "Under open sky adored."

verb

Sky v. t. (past & past part. skied or skyed; pres. part. skying)

1.

To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen. (Colloq.) "Brother Academicians who skied his pictures."

2.

To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Sky'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sky" Quotes from Famous Books

... awoke, the sun was half way up the eastern sky. He yawned, glanced at the sun, and rang for his breakfast. It was presently brought in to him by his English valet, who, like the chef, was not unused to the city social hours of his employer. Ashton did not trouble to go into his elegant little dining-room, but ordered the meal ...

— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet

... and the sun warm on his back. He sat there, smoking, feeling the quiet of the morning, the peace of the great sky above. ...

— Pipe of Peace • James McKimmey

... gray sky seemed to weigh down on the vast brown plain. The odor of autumn, the sad odor of bare, moist lands, of fallen leaves, of dead grass made the stagnant evening air more thick and heavy. The peasants were still at work, scattered through the fields, waiting for the stroke ...

— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

... the middle incredibly; it was spreading incredibly; and as it heaved and spread, it befouled itself and darkened its sky. Its boundary was mere shapelessness on the run; a raw, new house would appear on a country road; four or five others would presently be built at intervals between it and the outskirts of the town; the country road would turn into an asphalt ...

— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington

... heralded the settler, and that the settler would fence off the hunter's game preserve into farms and cities. A rare glamour lay over the plains {58} that June, not the less rare because hope beckoned the travellers. The unfenced prairie billowed to the horizon a sea of green, diversified by the sky-blue waters of slough and lake, and decked with the hues of gorgeous flowers—the prairie rose, fragrant, tender, elusive, and fragile as the English primrose; the blood-red tiger-lily; the brown windflower with its corn-tassel; the heavy wax cups of the sedgy water-lily, ...

— The Cariboo Trail - A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia • Agnes C. Laut

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