n.;
[ 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 ]
She passeth as it were a sky. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]
The Norweyan banners flout the sky. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ 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,
Sky scraper (Naut.),
Under open sky,
v. t.
Brother Academicians who skied his pictures. The Century. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having the blue color of the sky; azure;
a. Surrounded by sky. [ Poetic & R. ] “The skyed mountain.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Zool.) See Terrier. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Like the sky; ethereal; being in the sky. “Skyey regions.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers,
Lightning, my pilot, sits. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. & a. Very high. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) A lark that mounts and sings as it files, especially the common species (Alauda arvensis) found in Europe and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated for its melodious song; -- called also
☞ The Australian skylark (Cincloramphus cantillans) is a pipit which has the habit of ascending perpendicularly like a skylark, but it lacks the song of a true lark. The Missouri skylark is a pipit (Anthus Spraguei) of the Western United States, resembling the skylark in habit and song. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]