Crossword clues for skies
skies
- They may be threatening
- They may be cloudy or sunny
- They may be blue or cloudy
- They can be clear or blue
- The friendly ___
- Somewhere over the rainbow they're blue, in song
- Raises aloft: Colloq
- Planes fly through them
- Overhead views
- Overhead expanses
- Meteorologists study them
- Massive blue things
- Irving Berlin's "Blue _____"
- If they're clear, they're blue
- Hits a high pop-up
- Hits a high fly, in baseball lingo
- Heaven, with "the"
- Frequent forecast mention
- Expanses overhead
- Delta's spots
- Cloudy areas
- Blue expanses
- Big blue expanses
- Berlin's song "Blue ___."
- Berlin's "Blue __"
- Berlin tune with "Blue"
- Backgrounds for fireworks
- Air Force domain
- "Fly the friendly ___" (United Airlines slogan)
- "Blue ---" (Berlin tune)
- "Blue ___" (Irving Berlin tune)
- "... and the __ are not cloudy all day"
- "__ will be clear" (fair weather forecast)
- 'Blue '
- High places
- Irving Berlin's "Blue ___"
- Meteorologists' study
- Heavens above
- "Friendly" things, in old ads
- "Nothin' but blue ___"
- They're "friendly" in an ad campaign
- Jumps higher than, in sports slang
- Berlin's "Blue ___": 1927
- "Blue ___," 1927 Berlin song
- " . . . for spacious ___"
- "Blue ___," Berlin song
- Berlin's were blue
- "Blue ___," 1927 hit song
- Winter sportsmen not right as weather forecasters?
- Weather word
- What's up?
- The heavens
- Upper regions
- They're blue when clear
- Weather-report word
- Irving Berlin's 'Blue --'
- United's are friendly
- They may be clear or threatening
- They can be clear and blue
- Part 9 of our Lightfoot lyric
- "O beautiful for spacious __"
- ''Blue ___'' (Berlin tune)
- William Bridgeman's usual habitat
- United's are friendly, in ads
- U2 "Window in the ___"
- To the ___ (extravagantly)
- They're usually blue on a clear day
- They're blue when they're fair
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sky \Sky\ (sk[imac]), n.; pl. Skies (sk[imac]z). [OE. skie a cloud, Icel. sk[=y]; akin to Sw. & Dan. sky; cf. AS. sc[=u]a, sc[=u]wa, shadow, Icel. skuggi; probably from the same root as E. scum. [root]158. See Scum, and cf. Hide skin, Obscure.]
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A cloud. [Obs.]
[A wind] that blew so hideously and high, That it ne lefte not a sky In all the welkin long and broad.
--Chaucer. -
Hence, a shadow. [Obs.]
She passeth as it were a sky.
--Gower. -
The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural.
The Norweyan banners flout the sky.
--Shak. -
The wheather; the climate.
Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.
--Shak.Note: Sky is often used adjectively or in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sky color, skylight, sky-aspiring, sky-born, sky-pointing, sky-roofed, etc.
Sky blue, an azure color.
Sky scraper (Naut.), a skysail of a triangular form.
--Totten.Under open sky, out of doors. ``Under open sky adored.''
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. (sky English). vb. (en-third-person singularsky)
Usage examples of "skies".
The Dragonriders fought Thread in the skies, and people lived comfortably enough between Passes.
An early riser by nature, he was in the habit of scanning the morning skies for weather signs, so he had seen the fireball.
The stars haven't moved that much and there are bright ones in our skies that the Ancients saw from old Earth only as dim ones.
The skies currently above Pern had altered within Rukbat's system since the colonists had first surveyed it twenty-five hundred and fifty-three Turns ago.
Sweeping the skies for the appearance of more dragons, F'lessan quickly stripped off safety straps, shucking the pile to the nearest bench, as he began to shed his flying gear.
By getting to know our night skies and taking images-" F'lessan tapped the print.
By getting to know our night skies and taking images—" F'lessan tapped the print.
Coincidentally, earth itself had a Near Earth Object scare about the time I finished writing the manuscript, and many concerned scientists were watching the rather busy skies near our planet to identify and forewarn of other close encounters with NEO's and PHA (Possibly Hazardous Asteroids).
She turned on one wing tip and, knowing these skies better than she did, he did the same and soared through the narrow pass.
However, I went to the source, as it were, for correct astronomical dates for the latest Pern book, The Skies of Pern.
The thrust of The Skies of Pern, the need for the inhabitants to become more aware of their spatial environment, and the critical need to set up additional observatories to help prevent a recurrence of such a cosmic impact, is as modern and timely as the one currently in operation on earth, even if it requires the dragons of Pern to implement.
In The Skies of Pern, McCaffrey serves up a buffet which can satisfy virtually anyone who steps up to its table.
The citizens of Spokane saw two strange objects in their skies, both bluish white with a slight reddish tinge and oblong in shape.
The Manners were among a score of people who described similar objects in the Michigan skies of March 21, 1966.