Part 452

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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skied (?) or 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.]

Brother Academicians who skied his pictures.

The Century.

2. To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket. [Colloq.]

Sky"-blue (?), a. Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone. Wordsworth.

Skyed (?), a. Surrounded by sky. [Poetic & R.] "The skyed mountain." Thomson.

Skye" ter"ri*er (?). (Zoöl.) See Terrier.

Sky"ey (?), a. Like the sky; ethereal; being in the sky. "Skyey regions." Thackeray.

Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers, Lightning, my pilot, sits.

Shelley.

Sky"-high` (?), adv. & a. Very high. [Colloq.]

Sky"ish, a. Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal. [R.] Shak.

Sky"lark` (?), n. (Zoöl.) 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 sky laverock. See under Lark.

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.

Sky"lark"ing, n. The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing. [Colloq.]

Sky"light` (?), n. A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.

Sky"rock`et (?), n. A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.