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skies
(encz) | skies,lyže n: Zdeněk Brož |
skies
(encz) | skies,oblohy n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
Skies
(gcide) | 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.]
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[A wind] that blew so hideously and high,
That it ne lefte not a sky
In all the welkin long and broad. --Chaucer.
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2. Hence, a shadow. [Obs.]
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She passeth as it were a sky. --Gower.
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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.
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The Norweyan banners flout the sky. --Shak.
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4. The wheather; the climate.
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Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with
thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.
--Shak.
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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.
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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.
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huskies
(encz) | huskies, |
praise him to the skies
(encz) | praise him to the skies, |
riskiest
(encz) | riskiest,nejriskantnější adj: Zdeněk Brož |
skies
(encz) | skies,lyže n: Zdeněk Brožskies,oblohy n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
whiskies
(encz) | whiskies,whisky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
Droskies
(gcide) | drosky \dros"ky\ (dr[o^]s"k[y^]), n.; pl. Droskies
(dr[o^]s"k[i^]z). [Russ. drojki, dim. of drogi a kind of
carriage, prop. pl. of droga shaft or pole of a carriage.]
A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, formerly used in Poland
and Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on
which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet
reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles have
been so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two
horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities.
[Written also droitzschka, droshky and droschke.]
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Whiskies
(gcide) | Whiskey \Whis"key\, Whisky \Whis"ky\, n.; pl. Whiskeysor
Whiskies. [See Whisk, v. t. & n.]
A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also
tim-whiskey.
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