mid-skyn.adj.
/mɪdˈskʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈmɪdˈskaɪ/ poetic.† B. adj. (attributive).
A. n.
In singular and plural. The middle of the sky.
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the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [noun] > region, zone > middle
mid-skya1560
mid-heaven1612
a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) x. sig. Ggii Hie with wheeles Night wandring dame Diane did midskie beat wt palfreis heeles.
1637 J. Milton Comus 33 Com let us hast the starrs are high But night sits monarch yet in the mid skie.
1705 J. Philips Blenheim 8 As when two adverse Winds..in mid Sky Engage with horrid Shock.
1731 H. Travers Misc. Poems & Transl. 51 High at thy Word the soaring Splendor flew, Thro' the mid Skies a bright Division grew.
1832 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 305 When in the mid skies The climbing sun has reached his highest bound.
1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. iii. 41 Out of the mid-sky.
1902 W. Carleton Songs of Two Cent. 30 This sunset and this sunrise in mid-sky.
1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 23 The star of quiet being in mid-sky.
1984 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 43 707 In a great lightning flash, In the mid-sky.
Situated in the middle of the sky. Obsolete.
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1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 35 Thro all the midsky zones, to yon blue pole, Their green hills lengthen.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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