SKIED

Etymology 1

Verb

skied

simple past tense and past participle of ski

Etymology 2

Verb

skied

simple past tense and past participle of sky

Anagrams

• dikes, siked

Source: Wiktionary

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Skied,

Definition: imp. & p. p. of Sky, v. t.

SKI

Ski, n.

Definition: Same as Skee.

SKY

Sky, n.; pl. Skies. Etym: [OE. skie a cloud, Icel. sk; akin to Sw. & Dan. sky; cf. AS. sc, sc, shadow, Icel. skuggi; probably from the same root as E. scum. sq. root158. 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.

Sky, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skied or 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.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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