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skylight, n.|ˈskaɪlaɪt|
Also sky-light.
1. a. Light from the sky; light coming into a room, etc., from above.
1679Moxon Mech. Exerc. ix. 152 It being intended that a Skie-light shall fall through the Hollow Newel upon the Stairs. 1683― Mech. Exerc., Printing ii. ⁋1 Not..so low that the Sky-light will not reach into every part of the Room. 1780Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 1 May, The pictures, for the sake of a sky-light, are at the top of the house. 1781Phil. Trans. LXXII. 96 note, I found, that I could..perceive a bright object, such as white paper, against the sky-light. 1879Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) I. iv. 110, I now..direct attention to..the polarisation of skylight.
†b. Sc. The light of the night-sky. Obs.
1730in Marshall Hist. Scenes Perthshire (1880) 199 It [a ghost] appeared to me again, just after daylight, betwixt day and skylight.
c. = daylight 3 b. ? Obs.
1816T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall v, Push about the bottle:..No heel-taps. As to sky-light, liberty-hall. 1824Scott St. Ronan's x, Come, Mick, no skylights—here is Clara's health.
2. A small opening in a roof, or in the ceiling of a room, filled in with glass, for admitting daylight; the framework and glass fitted to an opening of this kind.
1690C. Nesse Hist. & Myst. O. & N. Test. I. 111 For the finishing of its roof and sky-light. 1707J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 257 A Sky-light that was over a Kitchen. 1774Phil. Trans. LXV. 113 The second and third rooms were square, and both furnished with a sky-light. 1834Marryat P. Simple (1863) 239, I smelt a very strong smell, blowing in at the weather port, and coming down the skylight which was open. 1886Manch. Exam. 9 Jan. 5/5 The débris fell with a crash through a skylight into the offices below.
transf. and fig.1833M. Scott Tom Cringle iii, His other skylight had been shut up ever since Aboukir. 1871R. H. Hutton Theol. Ess. I. 13 Skylights opened to let in upon human nature an infinite dawn from above.
3. A light in the sky; a rocket.
1898T. Hardy Wessex Poems 70 Three sky-lights then from the girdling trine Told ‘Ready!’
4. Special Comb.: skylight filter, a pale filter for use when taking colour photographs to counter excessive blueness from skylight.
1955G. R. Sharp tr. Lorelle's Colour Bk. Photogr. 77 A pale yellow haze or skylight filter may be desirable for shots of people or groups in the shade under a blue sky. 1965Focal Encycl. Photogr. I. 615/2 General correction filters for colour include haze and skylight filters, which mainly absorb ultraviolet and a certain amount of blue light. 1978SLR Camera Sept. 45/1 In addition to performing this very useful warming task, the Skylight filter also gets rid of a lot of UV and gives a mild degree of haze penetration.
Hence ˈskylight v. trans., to furnish with a skylight or skylights; ˈskylighted ppl. a., furnished with a skylight or skylights; lighted from above; ˈskylighty a., having the characteristics of being lighted from above.
1837Dickens Pickw. xiii, If the Buffs proposed to new sky-light the market-place, the Blues..denounced the proceeding. 1848Man in Moon III. 248 Perhaps you may know the room—large, square, skylighty. 1849Dickens Dav. Copp. (1850) xxiii. 246 The sky⁓lighted offices of Spenlow and Jorkins. 1880L. Wallace Ben Hur 136 As these were now raised, the compartment had the appearance of a skylighted hall. 1884Athenæum 29 Mar. 410/2 The mezzanine floor and skylighted gallery..will be devoted to the Department of Prints and Drawings. |