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: […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer16 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
09“Clouds' place”3 letters
10“Overhead blue area”3 letters
11“Overhead expanse”3 letters
12“What clouds cross”3 letters
13“Where clouds drift”3 letters
14“Overarching blue”3 letters
15“Above us”3 letters
16“What clouds are in”3 letters
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