sky

[sky]

Want to see the sky? Go outside and look up! That’s assuming you’re not on Mars, of course. Everything you see above the surface of the Earth is the sky.

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A cloud.

Noun
the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth

Verb
throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper"

n.
A cloud.

n.
Hence, a shadow.

n.
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.

n.
The wheather; the climate.

v. t.
To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen.

v. t.
To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket.

Sky

Sky , n.; pl. Skies . [OE. skie a cloud, Icel. sk; akin to Sw. & Dan. sky; cf. AS. sca, scwa, 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.

2. Hence, a shadow. [Obs.]

She passeth as it were a sky.

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.

4. The wheather; the climate.

Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.

&hand; 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

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.

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

A cloud.

To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen.

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Usage Examples

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.

Misspelled Form

sky, asky, wsky, esky, dsky, xsky, zsky, aky, wky, eky, dky, xky, zky, saky, swky, seky, sdky, sxky, szky, sjky, siky, soky, slky, smky, sjy, siy, soy, sly, smy, skjy, skiy, skoy, skly, skmy, skty, sk6y, sk7y, skuy, skhy, skt, sk6, sk7, sku, skh, skyt, sky6, sky7, skyu, skyh.

Other Usage Examples

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.