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o make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough. Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies. J. Barlow.

d horsemen. Sir W. Raleigh. Some tempest rise, And blow out all the stars that light the skies, To shroud my shame. Dryden.

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

of; as, to slight the divine commands. Milton. The wretch who slights the bounty of the skies. Cowper. To slight off, to treat slightingly; to drive off; to remove. [R.] -- To slight over, to run over in haste; to perform superficially; to treat carelessly; as, to slight over a theme. "They will but slight it over." B…

or mound to stop water. [Prov. Eng.] Stank hen (Zoöl.), the moor hen; -- called also stankie. [Prov. Eng.]

fused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes. When purple light shall next suffuse the skies. Pope.

To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt. Ere leave be given to tempt the nether skies. Dryden.

covered with eyes. The representations of it are evidently suggested by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.)

ounce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death. Milton. The skies look grimly And threaten present blusters. Shak.

A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp. Blackie.

as been extracted. It was used by the old masters as a middle or neutral tint for flesh, skies, and draperies, being of a purer and tenderer gray that produced by the mixture of more positive colors. Fairholt.

To beat; to strike. [Obs.] "The sound . . . rebounds again and verberates the skies." Mir. for Mag.

Anything that moves with a whirling motion. He saw Falmouth under gray, iron skies, and whirls of March dust. Carlyle.