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skyey

American  
[skahy-ee] / ˈskaɪ i /

adjective

  1. of or from the sky.

  2. in the sky; lofty.

  3. skylike; sky blue.


Etymology

Origin of skyey

First recorded in 1595–1605; sky + -ey 1

Example Sentences

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Thy cradle rocks to skyey breathings, Bright fall Love's shadows on you and me.

From Song-waves by Rand, Theodore H. (Theodore Harding)

Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.

From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge

Ye crystal firmamental bars That hold the skyey waters free From tide or tempest's ecstasy!

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Against the skyey beach of cloud-shells it reared like a grim cliff.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

Mr. Perry takes a distinction, and regards Indra as a god, not of sky, but of air, a midgarth between earth and sky, who inherited the skyey functions of Dyu.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

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