skurft

An obsolete form of scurf1. skurring (skur'ing), n. Eng.] in the plural. A thondir with a thicke Rayn thrublit in the skewes. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 7619. An hour after midnight the skie began to clear. Sandys, Travailes, p. 158. Heavily the low sky raining Over tower'd Camelot. Tennyson, Lady of Shalott, iv. 3. The apparent arch or vault of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the firmament: often used in the plural. A clene conscience schal in that day More profite, & be more sett by. Than al the muk & the money That euere was or schal be vndir the sky . Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 179. Betwixt the centred earth and azure skies . Spenser, Muiopotmos, 1. 19. 4. The supernal heavens; celestial regions; heaven: often in the plural with the same sense. He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. Dryden, Alexander's Feast, 1. 179. 5. The upper rows of pictures in a picture-gallery; also, the space near the ceiling. [Colloq.] - Open sky, sky with no intervening cover or shelter.The hole in the sky. Same as coal - sack, 2. -To the skies, to the highest degree; very highly: as, to laud a thing to the skies. Cowards extol true Courage to the Skies. Congreve, Of Pleasing. skyl (ski), v. t.; pret. and pp. skied, ppr. skying. [ sky1, n.] To raise aloft or toward the sky; specifically, to hang near the ceiling in an exhibition of paintings. [Colloq.] Fine, perhaps even finer than usual, are M. Fantin-Latour's groups of flowers, two of which have been sensele ly skied . The Academy , No. 890, p. 367.