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

sky \sky\ skimac, n.; pl. skies skimacz. oe. skie a
   cloud, icel. sk=y; akin to sw.  dan. sky; cf. as. sc=ua,
   sc=uwa, shadow, icel. skuggi; probably from the same root
   as e. scum. root158. see scum, and cf. hide skin,
   obscure.
   1. a cloud. obs.
      1913 webster

            a wind that blew so hideously and high,
            that it ne lefte not a sky
            in all the welkin long and broad.     --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   2. hence, a shadow. obs.
      1913 webster

            she passeth as it were a sky.         --gower.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            the norweyan banners flout the sky.   --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. the wheather; the climate.
      1913 webster

            thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with
            thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   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.
         1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
skies scum hide obscure sky blue sky scraper 
under open sky 

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