sky

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: OE. skie a cloud, Icel. skȳ; akin to Sw. & Dan. sky; cf. AS. scūa, scūwa, shadow, Icel. skuggi; probably from the same root as E. scum. √158. See Scum, and cf. 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.— Geoffrey Chaucer

2. Hence, a shadow. obsolete

She passeth as it were a sky.— John 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.— William Shakespeare

4. The weather; the climate.

Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.— William 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 Nautical, a skysail of a triangular form. Benjamin J. Totten — Under open sky, out of doors. “Under open sky adored.” John Milton

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.— The Century Illust. Monthly Mag.

2. To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket. colloquial

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54