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SKYED
Verb
skyed
simple past tense and past participle of sky
Adjective
skyed (comparative more skyed, superlative most skyed)
Surrounded by sky.
Anagrams
• Dykes, dykes
Source: Wiktionary
Skyed, a.
Definition: Surrounded by sky. [Poetic & R.] "The skyed mountain." Thomson.
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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