LekhoriLekhoriWith a descriptive word: the part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its climate, condition, etc.
I lay back under a warm Texas sky.
A disagreeable person; an enemy.
To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.
To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen; (by extension) to put (something) in an undesirable place.
The artists—I mean the younger brood, and not the Brother Academicians who "skied" his pictures—were the first and the most enthusiastic in his [George Fuller's] praise.
A surname.
A unisex given name from English.
The bad thing was she took my son Skiff with her. It's a dumb name I know, but at the time he was born all the kids were being called things like Sky and Saffron and Powie, and I was really sold on sailing.
Obsolete form of Skye (“Scottish island”).
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 (“clo...
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To toss (something) upwards; specifically, to flip (a coin).
In ‘skying’ a coin for the purpose of deciding a point at issue between two parties, two methods are in vogue: there is either the ‘slow torture’ of spinning the coin thrice, the decision to go against the tosser-up, if the other party, twice out of the three times, guesses right on which side the coin shall fall; or, the ‘sudden death’ method in which one toss is decisive; […]
A strange instance of something of this nature, even when on horseback, happened when he was in the isle of Sky.