Sky /(skī)/

Sky

n.

pl. Skies ((skīz))

  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.
    — 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.
  4. The wheather; the climate.
    Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.

Phrases & Compounds
Sky blue
an azure color.
Sky scraper
a skysail of a triangular form.
Under open sky
out of doors.

Sky

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Skied; 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.]