sky-scraper

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• Scraper

  ·noun One who scrapes. II. Scraper ·noun One who plays awkwardly on a violin. III. Scraper ·noun A...

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• scraper

  A fiddler; also one who scrapes plates for mezzotinto prints. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• scraper

  [from the Anglo-Saxon screope]. A small triangular iron instrument, having two or three sharp edges....

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• Sky

  ·noun Hence, a shadow. II. Sky ·noun The wheather; the climate. III. Sky ·noun A <<Cloud>>. IV. S...

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• gut scraper

  A fiddler. ...

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• Sky pilot

  ·add. ·- A person licensed as a pilot. ...

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• Sky-blue

  ·adj Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone. ...

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• Sky-high

  ·adv & ·adj Very high. ...

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• sky blue

  Gin. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• sky farmers

  Cheats who pretend they were farmers in the isle of Sky, or some other remote place, and were ruined...

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• sky parlour

  The garret, or upper story. ...

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• sky-racket

  The vulgar pronunciation of sky-rocket. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• day-sky

  The aspect of the sky at day-break, or at twilight. ...

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• livid sky

  That blackish red and blue which pervade the sky, previous to an easterly gale, at sea: "Deep midn...

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• mackerel-sky

  See cirro-cumulus. ...

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• sky-gazer

  The ugly hare-lipped Uranoscopus, whose eyes are on the crown of its head; the Italians call him pes...

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• sky-larking

  In olden times meant mounting to the mast-heads, and sliding down the royal-stays or backstays for a...

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• water-sky

  In Arctic seas, a dark and dull leaden appearance of the atmosphere, the reflected blue of the sea i...

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• to sky a copper

  To toss up a cent. Didge said he was like skying a copper--head or tail.--Crockett, Tour. ...

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• lamb's-wool sky

  A collection of white orbicular masses of cloud. ...

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• scum-o'-the-sky

  Thin atmospheric vapours. ...

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