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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SKY, n.
1. The aerial region which surrounds the earth; the apparent arch or vault of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color.
2. The heavens.
3. The weather; the climate.
4. A cloud; a shadow.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth v
1: throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper" [syn: flip, toss, sky, pitch]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun (plural skies) Etymology: Middle English, cloud, sky, from Old Norse sky? cloud; akin to Old English sc?o cloud Date: 13th century 1. the upper atmosphere or expanse of space that constitutes an apparent great vault or arch over the earth 2. heaven 2 3. a. weather in the upper atmosphere b. climate <temperate English skies — G. G. Coulton> II. verb (skied or skyed; skying) Date: 1802 transitive verb 1. chiefly British to throw or toss up ; flip 2. to hang (as a painting) above the line of vision 3. to hit (a ball) high into the air intransitive verb to jump high <sky for a rebound>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. (pl. skies) (in sing. or pl.) 1 the region of the atmosphere and outer space seen from the earth. 2 the weather or climate evidenced by this. --v.tr. (skies, skied) 1 Cricket etc. hit (a ball) high into the air. 2 hang (a picture) high on a wall. Phrases and idioms: sky-blue adj. & n. a bright clear blue. sky-blue pink an imaginary colour. sky-clad sl. naked (esp. in witchcraft). sky cloth Theatr. a backcloth painted or coloured to represent the sky. sky-high adv. & adj. as if reaching the sky, very high. the sky is the limit there is practically no limit. sky pilot sl. a clergyman. sky-rocket n. a rocket exploding high in the air. --v.intr. (-rocketed, -rocketing) (esp. of prices etc.) rise very steeply or rapidly. sky-shouting the sending of messages from an aircraft to the ground by means of a loudspeaker. sky-sign an advertisement on the roof of a building. sky wave a radio wave reflected from the ionosphere. sky-writing legible smoke-trails made by an aeroplane esp. for advertising. to the skies very highly; without reserve (praised to the skies). under the open sky out of doors. Derivatives: skyey adj. skyless adj. Etymology: ME ski(es) cloud(s) f. ON sk|

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sky Sky, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skiedor Skyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Skying.] 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's 1913 Dictionary

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.] [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. 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. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(skies) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. The sky is the space around the earth which you can see when you stand outside and look upwards. The sun is already high in the sky. ...warm sunshine and clear blue skies... N-VAR 2. pie in the sky: see pie

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ski (shachaq, "fine dust" or "cloud," apparently from [?] shachaq, "to rub," "to pulverize"; Samaritan: shechaqayyah instead of Hebrew shamayim; sachq = "cloud," "small dust"):

1. In the Old Testament:

The Revised Version (British and American) has "skies" for the King James Version "clouds" in Job 35:5; 36:28; 37:21; Ps 36:5; 57:10; 68:34; 78:23; 108:4; Pr 3:20; 8:28, in which passages BDB supports the rendering of King James Version. In Ps 89:6,37 Revised Version (British and American) has "sky" for King James Version "heaven." English Versions has "sky" in De 33:26; 2Sa 22:12; Job 37:18; Ps 18:11; 77:1; Isa 45:8; Jer 51:9. The word occurs mainly in poetical passages.

2. In the New Ttestament:

In the New Testament ouranos, is translated "heaven" (the King James Version "sky") in connection with the weather in Mt 16:2,3; Lu 12:56. In Heb 11:12 we find "the stars of heaven" ("the sky") as a figure of multitude. The conception, however, that the visible "sky" is but the dome-like floor of a higher world often makes it hard to tell whether "heaven" in certain passages may or may not be identified with the sky.

See HEAVEN; COSMOGONY.

Alfred Ely Day

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Firmament, heavens, canopy of heaven, celestial expanse. 2. Region of clouds. 3. Weather, climate.

Airports

Landing Facility Type	AIRPORT
Airport Code	SKY
EFF_DATE	02/16/2006
FAA Region	AGL
FAA District	DET
State	OH
State	OHIO
County	ERIE
County State	OH
City Name	SANDUSKY
Full Name	GRIFFING SANDUSKY
Owner Type	PR
Facility Use	PU
Facility City, State, Zip	"SANDUSKY, OH 44870"
Elevation	580
Aeronautical chart on which the airport facility appears	DETROIT
Distance from the central business district of the associated city to the airport in nautical miles	03
Direction of airport from the central business district of the associated city	SE
Customs international airport	Y
Customs Landing Rights Airport	N
Joint Use	N
Military Landing Rights	N
Control Tower	N
Based Single Engine General Aviation Aircraft	046
Based Multi-engine general aviation aircraft	010
Air Taxi	045000
General Aviation, Local Operations	051500
General Aviation - Itinerant Operations	014000
Military Aircraft Operations	001600
Latitude	41.4333611111
Longitude	-82.6523333333
State FIPS code	39
State Postal Code	OH
Total domestic enplanements (inbound plus outbound)	32
Version	09

Moby Thesaurus

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