Search Result for "sky blue":

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sky \Sky\ (sk[imac]), n.; pl. Skies (sk[imac]z). [OE. skie a cloud, Icel. sk[=y]; akin to Sw. & Dan. sky; cf. AS. sc[=u]a, sc[=u]wa, shadow, Icel. skuggi; probably from the same root as E. scum. [root]158. See Scum, and cf. Hide skin, Obscure.] 1. A cloud. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] [A wind] that blew so hideously and high, That it ne lefte not a sky In all the welkin long and broad. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, a shadow. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] She passeth as it were a sky. --Gower. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] The Norweyan banners flout the sky. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. The wheather; the climate. [1913 Webster] Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

27 Moby Thesaurus words for "sky blue": azure, azure-blue, azure-colored, azurean, azured, azureous, beryl-blue, berylline, blue, bluish, cerulean, ceruleous, cerulescent, cyanean, dark-blue, deep-blue, light-blue, lightish-blue, livid, pavonian, pavonine, peacock-blue, sapphire, sapphirine, sky-colored, sky-dyed, turquoise