Skies

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sky \Sky\ (sk[imac]), n.; pl. {Skies} (sk[imac]z). [OE. skie a
     cloud, Icel. sk[=y]; akin to Sw. & Dan. sky; cf. AS. sc[=u]a,
     sc[=u]wa, shadow, Icel. skuggi; probably from the same root
     as E. scum. [root]158. See {Scum}, and cf. {Hide} skin,
     {Obscure}.]
     1. A cloud. [Obs.]


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              [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.]
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              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.
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              The Norweyan banners flout the sky.   --Shak.
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     4. The wheather; the climate.
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              Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with
              thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.
                                                    --Shak.
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     Note: 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.
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     {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.
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