Sky
Sky (skī) , noun
[Old English skie a cloud, Icelandic skȳ; akin to Swedish & Danish sky; compare Anglo-Saxon scūa, scūwa, shadow, Icelandic skuggi; probably from the same root as English scum. r158. See Scum, and compare Hide skin, Obscure.]
1.
A cloud. [Obsolete]
[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. [Obsolete]
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 weather; the climate.
Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.
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.
Collocations (3)
Sky blue , an azure color.
Sky scraper (Nautical) , a skysail of a triangular form. — Totten
Under open sky , out of doors. Under open sky adored.
Sky , transitive verb
1.
To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen. [Colloquial]
Brother Academicians who skied his pictures.
2.
To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket. [Colloquial]