sky Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
  2. verb throw or toss with a light motion
    toss; flip; pitch.
    • flip me the beachball
    • toss me newspaper

WordNet


Sky noun
Etymology
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. See Scum, and cf. Hide skin, Obscure.
Wordforms
plural Skies
Definitions
  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.
  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 scraper, a tall building, usu. skyscraper
Sky transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Skied or Skyed; present participle & verbal noun Skying
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913