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Webster 1913 Edition
Sky
Sky
(skī)
, Noun.
pl.
Skies
(skīz)
. 1.
A cloud.
[Obs.]
[A wind] that blew so hideously and high,
That it ne lefte not a
In all the welkin long and broad.
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
. Shakespeare
4.
The wheather; the climate.
Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the
skies
. Shakespeare
☞ 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
,Verb.
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.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Sky
SKY
,Noun.
1.
The aerial region which surrounds the earth; the apparent arch or vault of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color.2.
The heavens.3.
The weather; the climate.4.
A cloud; a shadow.Definition 2024
ský
ský
Icelandic
Noun
ský n (genitive singular skýs, nominative plural ský)
Declension
declension of ský
| n-s | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | ský | skýið | ský | skýin |
| accusative | ský | skýið | ský | skýin |
| dative | skýi | skýinu | skýjum | skýjunum |
| genitive | skýs | skýsins | skýja | skýjanna |
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *skiwją (“cloud, cloud cover”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keu- (“to cover, conceal”).
Noun
ský n