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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.] [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.
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