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In a husky manner; dryly.

The state of being husky.

To make clear, bright, or luminous. Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky. Chapman.

usly cold, etc.; as, inclement weather. Cowper. The guard the wretched from the inclement sky. Pope. Teach us further by what means to shun The inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow! Milton.

To clasp; to inclose. Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips. Shak.

A poisonous serpent of Brazil (Bothrops jararaca), about eighteen inches long, and of a dusky, brownish color, variegated with red and black spots.

Playful; frisky. [R.] She is never sad, and yet not jiggish. Habington.

A beverage composed of brandy, whisky, or some other spirituous liquor, with sugar, pounded ice, and sprigs of mint; -- called also mint julep. [U.S.]

r. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne.

Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky.

ps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky. Wordsworth.

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. [Obs. or Scot.]

The medium through which light is admitted, as a window, or window pane; a skylight; in architecture, one of the compartments of a window made by a mullion or mullions. There were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks. I Kings vii.4.

To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.

ically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.

A hydrated arseniate of copper, occurring in obtuse pyramidal crystals of a sky-blue or verdigris-green color.

loomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. All the clouds that lowered upon our house. Shak.

Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.

Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.

amond. Sir T. More. The scorching sun was mounted high, In all its luster, to the noonday sky. Addison.