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Sky   /skaɪ/   Listen
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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"Sky" Quotes from Famous Books



... latitudes. The one feature of The Mountain that shed the brownest horror on its woods was the existence of the terrible region known as Rattlesnake Ledge, and still tenanted by those damnable reptiles, which distil a fiercer venom under our cold northern sky than the cobra himself in the land ...
— Elsie Venner • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... no special significance, but spread through my semi-consciousness into meaningless patterns. Then I woke up. "Comme c'est terrible," I said, "quelle chance que ca s'est fait la nuit!" I saw visions of leaping flames and angry reds reflected in the sky. ...
— Balloons • Elizabeth Bibesco
... unknown in his day. Yet Prof. A. H. Sayce, D.D., LL.D., of Oxford University, one of the greatest archaeologists the world ever knew, writes: "Egypt was the first to deliver up its dead. Under an almost rainless sky, where frost is unknown, and the sand seals up all that is entrusted to its keeping, nothing perishes except by the hand of man. The fragile papyrus, inscribed it may be 5,000 years ago, is as fresh and legible as when its ...
— The Evolution Of Man Scientifically Disproved • William A. Williams
... lady of the Alhambra ballet who desires the particular shade of cultivation that will match a new brougham. She teaches Carlotta to spell, to hold a knife and fork, and corrects such erroneous opinions as that the sky is an inverted bowl over a nice flat earth, and that the sun, moon, and stars are a sort of electric light installation, put into the cosmos to illuminate Alexandretta and the Regent's Park. Her religious instruction I myself ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke
... trees; then measure two hundred and eighty feet, its height, upon the ground at right angles to the church; then stand on that spot and, facing the church, imagine the trunk rising, tapering slightly, against the building's side and the sky above it; then slowly lift your eyes until you are looking up into the sky at an angle of forty-five degrees, this to fix its height were it growing in front ...
— The Book of the National Parks • Robert Sterling Yard


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