Definitions
throw or toss with a light motion
Word origin
The noun is derived from Middle English sky (“sky; cloud; mist”), also spelled ski, skie, [and other forms], from Old Norse ský (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *skiwją (“cloud; sky”), from *skiwô (“cloud; cloud cover, haze; sky”) (whence Old English sċēo (“cloud”) and Middle English skew (“air; sky; (rare) cloud”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to conceal, hide”).
Used in a sentence
“That year, a meteor fell from the sky.”
“For beſides the groues, / The skyes, the fountaines, euery region neare / Seeme all one mutuall cry. I neuer heard / So muſicall a diſcord, ſuch ſweete thunder.”
“His wearie ghoſt aſſoyld from fleſhly band, / Did not as others wont, directly fly / Vnto her reſt in Plutoes grieſly land, / Ne into ayre did vaniſh preſently, / Ne chaunged was into a ſtarre in sky: […]”
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Used as a crossword answer12 curated clues
01“Above the clouds”3 letters
02“Bird's backdrop”3 letters
03“Blue area above clouds”3 letters
04“Blue area overhead”3 letters
05“Blue overhead expanse”3 letters
06“Blue overhead space”3 letters
07“Cloud-filled expanse”3 letters
08“Clouds' backdrop”3 letters
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