The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.]
1. A cloud. [Obs.]
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[A wind] that blew so hideously and high,
That it ne lefte not a sky
In all the welkin long and broad. --Chaucer.
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2. Hence, a shadow. [Obs.]
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She passeth as it were a sky. --Gower.
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3. 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.
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The Norweyan banners flout the sky. --Shak.
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4. The wheather; the climate.
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Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with
thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.
--Shak.
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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.
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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.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "sky blue":
azure, azure-blue, azure-colored, azurean, azured, azureous,
beryl-blue, berylline, blue, bluish, cerulean, ceruleous,
cerulescent, cyanean, dark-blue, deep-blue, light-blue,
lightish-blue, livid, pavonian, pavonine, peacock-blue, sapphire,
sapphirine, sky-colored, sky-dyed, turquoise