sky

The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen.

That year, a meteor fell from the sky.

For beſides the groues, / The skyes, the fountaines, euery region neare / Seeme all one mutuall cry. I neuer heard / So muſicall a diſcord, ſuch ſweete thunder.

With 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.

We’re not sure how long the cloudy skies will last.

Usually preceded by the: the abode of God or the gods, angels, the souls of deceased people, etc.; heaven; also, powers emanating from heaven.

This mortal has incurred the wrath of the skies.

Now am I dead, now am I fled, my ſoule is in the sky.

Ellipsis of sky blue.

But yet methinks, thoſe knots of Sky, do not / So well with the dead colour of her Face.

[W]hy, / Brother, I have beſpoke Dinner, and engag'd / Mr. Rake-hell, the little ſmart Gentleman I have / Often promis'd thee to make thee acquainted / Withal, to bring a whole Bevy of Damſels / In Sky, and Pink, and Flame-colour'd Taffeta's.

The set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time.

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.

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; […]

To clear (a high jump bar, hurdle, etc.) by a large margin.

To hit, kick, or throw (a ball) extremely high.

Hernandez [i.e., Félix Hernández] walked the bases loaded, then fell behind 3–1 in the count to Bobby Abreu, who then skied the next pitch to left for a sacrifice fly.

A disagreeable person; an enemy.