Category:Sky

Sky

In other languages, the word for sky is: Indonesian:langit Maori:rangi Malagasy:lanitra

Sky, n.; pl. Skies. Etym: [oe. skie a cloud, icel. sk; akin to sw. & Dan. sky; cf. As. sc, sc, shadow, icel. skuggi; probably from the Same root as e. scum. sq. root158. 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.

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. Totten. -- under open sky, out of doors. "under open sky adored." Milton.

Sky 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.]