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