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Sky (skī), n.; pl. Skies (skīz). [OE. skie a cloud, Icel. skȳ; akin to Sw. & Dan. sky; cf. AS. scūa, scūwa, shadow, Icel. skuggi; probably from the same root as E. scum. √158. See Scum, and cf. Hide skin, Obscure.]
1. A cloud. [Obs.]
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[A wind] that blew so hideously and high,
That it ne lefte not a sky
In all the welkin long and broad. Chaucer.
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2. Hence, a shadow. [Obs.]
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She passeth as it were a sky. Gower.
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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.
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The Norweyan banners flout the sky. Shak.
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4. The wheather; the climate.
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Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Shak.
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☞ 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.
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Sky blue, an azure color. -- Sky scraper (Naut.), a skysail of a triangular form. Totten. -- Under open sky, out of doors. “Under open sky adored.” Milton.
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Sky, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skied (?) or Skyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Skying (?).]
1. To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen. [Colloq.]
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Brother Academicians who skied his pictures. The Century.
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2. To throw towards the sky; as, “to sky a ball at cricket”. [Colloq.]
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