. A law enacted to provide for the regulation and supervision of investment companies in order to protect the public against companies that do not intend to do a fair and honest business and that offer investments that do not promise a fair return; -- so called because the promises made by some investment companies are as boundless or alluring as the blue sky, or, perhaps, because designed to clear away the clouds and fogs from the simple investor's horizon. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Cf. Bushy. ] 1. Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Caused by boscage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Darkened over by long bosky shadows. H. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

. See under Whisky. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Droskies [ Russ. drojki, dim. of drogi a kind of carriage, prop. pl. of droga shaft or pole of a carriage. ] A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, formerly used in Poland and Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles have been so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities. [ Written also droitzschka, droshky and droschke. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. 1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy. [ 1913 Webster ]

This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Intellectually clouded. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To place in the sky or in heaven. [ R. ] “A thing enskied and sainted.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is too frisky for an old man. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Husk, n. ] Abounding with husks; consisting of husks. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Prob. for husty; cf. OE. host cough, AS. hwōsta; akin to D. hoest, G. husten, OHG. huosto, Icel. hōsti. See Wheeze. ] Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Powerful; strong; burly. [ Colloq., U. S. ]

A good, husky man to pitch in the barnyard. Hamlin Garland. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. -kies /plu>. [ Cf. Eskimo. ] 1. An Eskimo. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The Eskimo language. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. an Eskimo dog, especially a breed of strong heavy-coated dogs used to pull dogsleds in the Northern regions of North America. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ , n. That which is restless and uneasy. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Kicky-wicky, or, in some editions, Kicksy-wicksy, is applied contemptuously to a wife by Shakespeare, in “All's Well that Ends Well, ” ii. 3, 297. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Russ. kolinski of Kola, a district in northeasten Russia where the finest minks abound. ] Among furriers, any of several Asiatic minks; esp., Putorius sibiricus, the yellowish brown pelt of which is valued, esp. for the tail, used for making artists' brushes. Trade names for the fur are red sable and Tatar sable. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A sky filled with rows of cirrocumulus or small altocumulus clouds. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A whiskey distilled in Scotland (esp. whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still); Scotch whisky.
Syn. -- Scotch, Scotch-whiskey, Scotch whisky. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having an odor of musk, or somewhat the like. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The muskellunge. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

a. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an intensive. [ Colloq. & Low, U.S. ] Judd. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Attended with risk or danger; hazardous. “A risky matter.” W. Collins. [ 1913 Webster ]

Generalization are always risky. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Skies [ OE. skie a cloud, Icel. sk&ymacr_;; akin to Sw. & Dan. sky; cf. AS. scūa, scūwa, shadow, Icel. skuggi; probably from the same root as E. scum. √158. See Scum, and cf. Hide skin, Obscure. ] 1. A cloud. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ A wind ] that blew so hideously and high,
That it ne lefte not a sky
In all the welkin long and broad. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, a shadow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She passeth as it were a sky. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Norweyan banners flout the sky. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The wheather; the climate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Skied r Skyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Skying ] 1. To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Brother Academicians who skied his pictures. The Century. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Surrounded by sky. [ Poetic & R. ] “The skyed mountain.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) See Terrier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like the sky; ethereal; being in the sky. “Skyey regions.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers,
Lightning, my pilot, sits. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. Very high. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Australian skylark (Cincloramphus cantillans) is a pipit which has the habit of ascending perpendicularly like a skylark, but it lacks the song of a true lark. The Missouri skylark is a pipit (Anthus Spraguei) of the Western United States, resembling the skylark in habit and song. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -men. An aeronaut. [ Slang ]
Syn. -- airman; pilot. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + PJC ]

. (Aeronautics) A person licensed as an airplane pilot. [ Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To rise rapidly; -- usually used figuratively, as of prices. [ PJC ]

n. (Naut.) The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (a) (Naut.) (1) A skysail of a triangular form. [ Rare ] (2) A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. [ Obs. ] (b) A very tall building, especially one over 20 stories high. (c) Hence, anything usually large, high, or excessive. [ Slang or Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. & adv. Toward the sky. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having tusks. “The scar indented by the tusky boar.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The lower region of the sky. [ 1913 Webster ]

Floating about the undersky. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Ir. or Gael. uisge water (perhaps akin to E. wash, water) in uisgebeatha whiskey, properly, water of life. Cf. Usquebaugh. ] An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bourbon whisky, corn whisky made in Bourbon County, Kentucky. --
Crooked whisky. See under Crooked. --
Whisky Jack (Zool.), the Canada jay (Perisoreus Canadensis). It is noted for its fearless and familiar habits when it frequents the camps of lumbermen in the winter season. Its color is dull grayish blue, lighter beneath. Called also moose bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Whisky + -fy. ] Drunk with whisky; intoxicated. [ Humorous ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. Whiskeys r Whiskies. [ See Whisk, v. t. & n. ] A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim-whiskey. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }. (U. S. Hist.) A conspiracy of distillers and government officials during the administration of President Grant to defraud the government of the excise taxes. The frauds were detected in 1875 through the efforts of the Secretary of the Treasury B. H. Bristow, and most of the offenders were convicted. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]