v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Skied r 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Brother Academicians who skied his pictures. The Century. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Skies [ OE. skie a cloud, Icel. sk&ymacr_;; akin to Sw. & Dan. sky; cf. AS. scūa, scūwa, shadow, Icel. skuggi; probably from the same root as E. scum. √158. 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 ]

☞ 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 ]

a. Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Surrounded by sky. [ Poetic & R. ] “The skyed mountain.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) See Terrier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like the sky; ethereal; being in the sky. “Skyey regions.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers,
Lightning, my pilot, sits. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. Very high. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A lark that mounts and sings as it files, especially the common species (Alauda arvensis) found in Europe and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated for its melodious song; -- called also sky laverock. See under Lark. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Australian skylark (Cincloramphus cantillans) is a pipit which has the habit of ascending perpendicularly like a skylark, but it lacks the song of a true lark. The Missouri skylark is a pipit (Anthus Spraguei) of the Western United States, resembling the skylark in habit and song. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]