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A cloud. [Obs.] [A wind] that blew so hideously and high, That it ne lefte not a sky In all the welkin long and broad. Chaucer.

A person licensed as a pilot. [Slang]

Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone. Wordsworth.

, adv. & a. Very high. [Colloq.]

See Terrier.

Surrounded by sky. [Poetic & R.] "The skyed mountain." Thomson.

Like the sky; ethereal; being in the sky. "Skyey regions." Thackeray. Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers, Lightning, my pilot, sits. Shelley.

Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal. [R.] Shak.

n Europe and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated for its melodious song; -- called also sky laverock. See under Lark.

The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing. [Colloq.]

A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.

An aëronaut. [Slang]

A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.

The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.

A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. [Obs.]

Toward the sky.

e the promises made by some investment companies are as boundless or alluring as the blue sky, or, perhaps, because designed to clear away the clouds and fogs from the simple investor's horizon. [Colloq.]

Caused by boscage. Darkened over by long bosky shadows. H. James.

See under Whisky.

See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n. Shak.