'Sky' definitions:
Definition of 'sky'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Sky'
From: GCIDE
- Sky \Sky\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skiedor 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.] [1913 Webster]
- Brother Academicians who skied his pictures. --The Century. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sky'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'sky'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acme,
- aerial heights,
- air,
- apex,
- apogee,
- azure,
- blue sky,
- brow,
- caelum,
- Caelus,
- canopy,
- canopy of heaven,
- cap,
- cerulean,
- climax,
- cloud nine,
- cope,
- crest,
- crown,
- culmen,
- culmination,
- dizzy heights,
- edge,
- elevation,
- eminence,
- empyrean,
- ether,
- extreme limit,
- extremity,
- firmament,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- height,
- heights,
- high noon,
- highest pitch,
- highest point,
- hyaline,
- lift,
- lifts,
- limit,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- mountaintop,
- ne plus ultra,
- no place higher,
- noon,
- Olympian heights,
- peak,
- pinnacle,
- pitch,
- point,
- pole,
- raise,
- ridge,
- rise,
- rising ground,
- seventh heaven,
- spire,
- starry heaven,
- steep,
- stratosphere,
- summit,
- the blue,
- the blue serene,
- tip,
- tip-top,
- top,
- upmost,
- upper extremity,
- uppermost,
- uprise,
- utmost,
- vantage ground,
- vantage point,
- vault,
- vault of heaven,
- vertex,
- very top,
- welkin,
- zenith
Words containing 'Sky'
- Skies,
- Big Sky,
- Mackerel sky,
- Sky Lake,
- Sky Valley,
- Sky blue,
- Sky pilot,
- Sky scraper,
- Under open sky,
- blue sky,
- sky burial,
- sky dive,
- sky glow,
- sky laverock,
- sky marshal,
- sky wave,
- Big Sky, MT,
- Sky Lake, FL,
- Sky Valley, GA,
- Sky-blue,
- Sky-high,
- blue sky law,
- blue-sky,
- lucy in the sky with diamonds,
- Mackerel-back sky,
- azure cerulean sky-blue bright blue