<B>sky, </B>noun, pl. <B>skies,</B> verb, <B>skied</B> or <B>skyed,</B> <B>skying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>Often, <B>skies.</B> the covering over the world; the region of the clouds or the upper air; the heavens. <BR> <I>Ex. a blue sky, a cloudy sky, to open the sky to aircraft of all nations.</I> (SYN) firmament. <DD><B> 2a. </B>the place where many people believe God and His angels live; heaven. <DD><B> b. </B>the heavenly power; the Deity. <DD><B> 3. </B>weather or climate. <BR> <I>Ex. I seek a warmer sky (Tennyson).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) a cloud. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to hit, throw, or raise high into the air, as in golf or cricket. <BR> <I>Ex. to sky a ball.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to hang (a picture or other piece of art) high up on the wall or near the ceiling, as at an exhibition. <BR><I>expr. <B>out of a clear</B> (<B>blue</B>) <B>sky,</B> </I>suddenly; unexpectedly. <BR> <I>Ex. He dropped upon me ... out of a clear sky and began asking questions which I had to answer (W. E. Norris).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>the sky is the limit,</B> </I>there is no limit; everything is possible or achievable. <BR> <I>Ex. For a girl of real talent the sky is the limit (London Times).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>to the skies</B> (or <B>sky</B>), </I>to the highest possible degree; very highly. <BR> <I>Ex. to praise to the skies.</I> </DL>
<B>skycap, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a porter at an airport. </DL>
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<B>sky-clad, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> unclothed. <BR> <I>Ex. naked, or as the Californian suntan-loving neopagans here disporting prefer to call it, "sky-clad" (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>skydive, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-dived,</B> <B>-diving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to engage in sky diving. </DL>
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<B>sky diver,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who engages in sky diving. <BR> <I>Ex. Canada's sky divers are steadily gaining new converts to their sport--free-falling thousands of feet from an aircraft (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
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<B>sky diving</B> or <B>skydiving, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the sport, or military tactic, of diving from an airplane and dropping in a free fall for a great distance, controlling one's course by changing body positions, before releasing the parachute. </DL>
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<B>skyer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a lofty hit at cricket. </DL>
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<B>Skye terrier,</B> or <B>Skye, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any dog of an old Scottish breed of terriers having a long, low body with short, strong legs and long, shaggy hair. </DL>
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<B>skyey, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or from the sky. <BR> <I>Ex. A breath thou art, servile to all the skyey influences (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) very high; lofty. <DD><B> 3. </B>like the sky in color; sky-blue; azure. </DL>
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<B>skyglow, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a shaft of light on the night sky, reflecting the lighting patterns of a city. <BR> <I>Ex. ... to reduce skyglow, which could give navigational aid to enemy aircraft in an attack on principal U.S. target cities (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).</I> </DL>
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<B>sky-high, </B>adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> very high. <BR> <I>Ex. One firm in the advertising game that is not doing sky-high business is a skywriter here (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>skyhook, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a flattish device that spirals slowly to earth when dropped from a plane, used to drop supplies, as of medicine. </DL>
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<B>skyhook balloon,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, open-necked plastic balloon used to carry scientific instruments for making meteorological studies or observing cosmic rays, the sun's spectrum, etc.. <BR> <I>Ex. A different method of taking a hurricane's picture is also a Navy project: a giant skyhook balloon carrying a camera gondola (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<B>skyjack, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to take over (an aircraft) by force, causing it to fly to a place other than its original destination. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act or fact of hijacking an aircraft. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=skyjacker.</B> </DL>
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<B>skyjacker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who hijacks an aircraft; air pirate. </DL>
<A NAME="skyjacking">
<B>skyjacking, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the hijacking of an aircraft; air piracy. </DL>
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<B>Skylab, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several earth-orbiting space stations of the United States, the first of which was launched in 1973. </DL>
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<B>skylark, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a small bird of Europe and Asia that sings very sweetly as it flies toward the sky. <BR> <I>Ex. A more inexhaustible singer than the skylark does not exist (W. H. Hudson).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to play pranks; frolic. <BR> <I>Ex. The children were skylarking in the orchard.</I> noun <B>skylarker.</B> </DL>
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<B>skyless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without visible sky; cloudy; dark; thick. <BR> <I>Ex. a skyless day.</I> </DL>
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<B>skylight, </B>noun, verb, <B>-lighted</B> or <B>-lit,</B> <B>-lighting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a window in a roof orceiling. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to furnish with or light by a skylight or skylights. <BR> <I>Ex. All the inside rooms were skylighted.</I> </DL>
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<B>skyline, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the line at which earth and sky seem to meet; horizon. <BR> <I>Ex. Often I had to crawl on all-fours to avoid appearing against the skyline on the ridge (Theodore Roosevelt).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the outline of mountains, trees, or buildings, as seen against the sky. <BR> <I>Ex. The tall buildings and towers of New York City make a remarkable skyline.</I> </DL>
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<B>skyliner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a large, usually luxurious, commercial passenger airplane. </DL>
<A NAME="skylit">
<B>skylit, </B>adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> skylighted. <BR> <I>Ex. The long skylit corridor ... leads to the ten consulting rooms (Time).</I> <DD><I>verb </I> skylighted; a past tense and a past participle of <B>skylight.</B> </DL>
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<B>skylounge, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a surface vehicle for collecting air passengers at various locations, that is then flown by helicopter directly to the airport. </DL>
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<B>skyman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) an aviator. </DL>
<A NAME="skymap">
<B>sky map,</B> <B>=star map.</B></DL>
<A NAME="skymarshal">
<B>sky marshal,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an armed law-enforcement officer, usually in plain clothes, assigned to protect aircraft and passengers from skyjackings. </DL>
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<B>skymotel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a motel for air travelers, usually at or near an airport. </DL>
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<B>sky parlor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a garret or attic. </DL>
<A NAME="skyphos">
<B>skyphos, </B>noun, pl. <B>-phoi.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an ancient Greek cup; scyphus. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the pendant semicircle skyphos, which are found throughout the Aegean (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>sky pilot,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Slang.) a clergyman; chaplain. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) an aviator. </DL>
<A NAME="skyport">
<B>skyport, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an airport for helicopters, built on top of a building. </DL>
<A NAME="skyr">
<B>skyr, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an Icelandic dessert made from curds that is much like yogurt, and is usually served with sugar and cream. </DL>
<A NAME="skyrocket">
<B>skyrocket, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a firework that goes up high into the air and (usually) bursts into a shower of stars and sparks; rocket. <DD><I>v.i., v.t. </I> to rise or cause to rise very rapidly or suddenly, often with great display or notice; shoot up. <BR> <I>Ex. The price of gasoline skyrocketed during the shortage. "The Virginian" ... won instant success and skyrocketed its author to fame (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>skysail, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a light sail set at the top of a mast above the royal on a square-rigged ship. </DL>
<A NAME="skyscape">
<B>skyscape, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a view of the sky. <BR> <I>Ex. It was the unbroken horizon which impressed me ... and the skyscapes which it afforded (Robert Southey).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a picture or representation of part of the sky. <BR> <I>Ex. The landscape and skyscape in the background are an oil painting stretched on canvas over a built-in frame (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>skyscraper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a very tall building. <BR> <I>Ex. New York is famous for its skyscrapers. Where did the skyscraper get its name? From the topmost sail of the clipper ships, according to Lewis Mumford (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<B>sky sign,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) an advertisement, announcement, or direction, set up so as to be visible against the sky, as on the top of a building. <BR> <I>Ex. If you drive round London at night you keep coming across illuminated sky signs suspended eerily in places where memory tells you there aren't any buildings (Punch).</I> </DL>
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<B>Skysweeper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) an automatic antiaircraft gun with radar and computer that tracks the target and aims the gun on the same carriage. </DL>
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<B>skywalk, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an overhead suspended walkway inside a building. <BR> <I>Ex. Design changes ... apparently weakened the skywalks (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="skyward">
<B>skyward, </B>adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> toward the sky. <BR> <I>Ex. to move skyward (adv.), a skyward movement (adj.).</I> </DL>
