sky, skie, skye

[Icel. ský =a cloud; Dan. & Sw. sky; cf. A. S. scúa, scúwa=a shade; Icel. skuggi shade, shadow.] *1. A cloud. IMG:content-1556.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1557.png:[blocks in formation] By great elevations. It is to the vapory and the earthy steel frames resting on a great cantilever sunk down to particles in the atmosphere that the reflection is bed-rock, some seventy feet below the street level. due; but for these there would be total darkne till this arrangement the tallest structure is invincible to the instant of sunrise, and it would return the the strongest gales. Each portion is dependent on the moment of sunset. rest and cannot give way unle the very foundations are riven. The iron framework system presents another B. As substantive : Milk and water, from its color. advantage, too, that it renders the building practically (Applied also to milk diluted with water, but sold invulnerable. The danger of fire in a sky - scraper is prac- as pure.) "That mild sky -blue That washed my sweet meals down." Hood: Retrospective Review. tically nil ; and even should one occur, such are the precautionary arra gements that but little damage could be done either to life or property. Finally, so simple is the proce of construction that a fully equipped thirty story building can be raised from its foundation to its for Nov. 1898. *sky-born, adj . Born or produced in the sky: roof in le than six months." - Metropolitan Magazine heaven-born. sky-bred, *skie-bred, a . Sky-born. "The skie - bred eagle, roiall bird, Percht there upon an oke above." Spenser: Friend's Pa ion. sky-color, s . The color of the sky; azure. "A solution as clear as water, with only a light touch of sky - color , but nothing near so high as the ceruleous tincture of silver."- Beale . sky-colored, adj. Of the color of the sky; sky. blue. "This your Ovid himself has hinted, when he tells us that the blue water-nymphs are dre ed in sky - colored garments."- Add is on . sky-drain, subst . An open drain, or a drain filled with loose stones not covered with earth, round the walls of a building, to prevent dampne . *sky-dyed, a. Colored like the sky. "There figs, sky - dyed , a purple hue disclose." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, xi. 727. sky-high, a . or adv . High as the sky; very high. sky-lark, s. Ornith.: Alauda arvensis , one of the most popular European cage-birds from the variety and power, rather than the quality, of its song, and the ease with which its health is preserved in captivity. It is an inhabitant of all the countries of Europe, many migrating southward in winter. The adult male is about seven inches long; feathers on top of upper parts brown, each feather with a spot of head dark brown with paler edges, forming a crest, darker hue; throat and upper part of breast grayish. brown, spotted with dark brown, abdomen yel. lowish-white, deepening into pale brown on the flanks; tail-feathers various shades of brown. The female is a little smaller than the male and some what narrower acro the shoulders. "He next proceeded to the skylark , mounting up by a proper scale of notes, and afterward falling to the ground with a very easy descent." -Spectator.