sky noun pl. Skies (skīz). [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.]

s 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.

☞ 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 transitive verb [imperfect or past participle Skied or Skyed; present participle or verbal noun 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.]