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.]
Brother Academicians who skied his
pictures.
The Century. 2. To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball
at cricket.
[Colloq.]
Sky (skī), n.;
pl. Skies (skīz). [OE.
skie a cloud, Icel.
sk&ymacr;; 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.]
[A wind] that blew so
hideously and high,
That it ne lefte
not a sky
In all the welkin long and broad.
Chaucer. 2. Hence, a shadow. [Obs.]
She passeth as it
were a sky.
Gower.
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.
Shak.
4. The wheather; the climate.
Thou wert better in thy
grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.
Shak. &fist; 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.
Totten. -- Under open sky, out of doors. "Under open sky adored." Milton.
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