Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered
body this extremity of the skies.
Shak.
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.