01 n. A cloud.
pl.
Skies ((skīz))
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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.
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2.
Hence, a shadow.[Obs.]“She passeth as it were a sky.” — Gower.
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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.
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4.
The wheather; the climate.“Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.” — Shak.
Phrases & compounds
Sky blue —
an azure color.
Sky scraper —
a skysail of a triangular form.
Under open sky —
out of doors.