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  • English Word Skunkish Definition Like the skunk, especially in odor.
  • English Word Skunktop Definition The surf duck.
  • English Word Skunkweed Definition Skunk cabbage.
  • English Word Skurry Definition See Scurry.
  • English Word Skute Definition A boat; a small vessel.
  • English Word Skutterudite Definition A mineral of a bright metallic luster and tin-white to pale lead-gray color. It consists of arsenic and cobalt.
  • English Word Sky Definition A cloud.
  • English Word Sky Definition Hence, a shadow.
  • English Word Sky Definition 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.
  • English Word Sky Definition The wheather; the climate.
  • English Word Sky Definition To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen.
  • English Word Sky Definition To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket.
  • English Word Sky-blue Definition Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone.
  • English Word Sky-high Definition Very high.
  • English Word Skye terrier Definition See Terrier.
  • English Word Skyed Definition of Sky
  • English Word Skyed Definition Surrounded by sky.
  • English Word Skyey Definition Like the sky; ethereal; being in the sky.
  • English Word Skying Definition of Sky
  • English Word Skyish Definition Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal.
  • English Word Skylark Definition A lark that mounts and sings as it files, especially the common species (Alauda arvensis) found in Europe and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated for its melodious song; -- called also sky laverock. See under Lark.
  • English Word Skylarking Definition The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing.
  • English Word Skylight Definition A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.
  • English Word Skyrocket Definition A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.
  • English Word Skysail Definition The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.
  • English Word Skyward Definition Toward the sky.
  • English Word Slab Definition A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces.
  • English Word Slab Definition An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
  • English Word Slab Definition The wryneck.
  • English Word Slab Definition The slack part of a sail.