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skies 音标拼音: [sk'ɑɪz] n. 天空 天空 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.] [ 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] 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. [ 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]
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