cloud born (kloudborn)

[Tr. of L. nubigena, Born of a cloud. Dryden, Æneid. 1. Built up of Cloud- born centaurs. cloud-built (kloud'bilt), a. clouds. The sun went down Behind the cloud - built columns of the west. Cowper, Ody ey. 2. Fanciful; imaginary; chimerical; fantastic: applied to day-dreams or castles in the air. And so vanished my cloud - built palace. Goldsmith, E ays. cloud-burst (kloud'bėrst), n. A violent downpour of rain in large quantity and over a very limited area. The most destructive cloud - burst ever known in Grant county extended over twelve miles in length. Rocks weighing tons were washed loose on the hills, and came down like an avalanche, sweeping away fences, houses, and groves; dry gulches were filled and overflowing; the smallest rivulets became roaring torrents. Amer. Meteor. Jour., II. 556. War Roc on cloud is, los Horace, cloud-capped, cloud-capt (kloud kapt), a. Capped with clouds; touching the clouds; lofty. The cloud - capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces. Magellanic clouds. See Magellanic. - Under a cloud, in difficulties or misfortune; in an uncertain or unfortu- nate condition; especially, under suspicion or in disgrace. I will say that for the English, if they were deils, that they are a ceeveleesed people to gentlemen that are under Scott, Red gauntlet, II. xiii. a cloud. They had attached themselves to Isabella in the early part of her life, when her fortunes were still under a cloud. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 13. Under cloudt, under heaven; under the sun. Was neuer kyng under cloude his knightes more louet, Ne gretter of giftes to his goode men. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3873. =Syn. 1. Haze , Fog , etc. See rain , n. cloud1 (kloud), v . [ cloud , n.] I. trans. 1. To overspread with a cloud or clouds: as, the sky is clouded . Hence-2. To cover as if with clouds: in various figurative applications, as to obscure, darken, render gloomy or sullen, etc.: said of aspect or mood. To cloud and darken the clearest truths. Shak ., Tempest, iv. 1. cloud-compeller (kloud'kom-peler), n. [Atr. of Gr. νεφεληγερέτα, lit. 'cloud-gatherer,' a Ho- meric epithet of Zeus (Jupiter), νεφέλη , cloud (see nebula), + ἀγείρειν, gather: see agora.] He who collects or drives together the clouds: an epithet of Zeus or Jupiter. cloud-compelling (kloud kom-peling), a. Col- lecting or driving together the clouds: applied cla ically to Jupiter. Bacchus, the seed of cloud - compelling Jove. Waller, On the Danger His Majesty Escaped. Aby in i a's cloud - compelling cliffs. Thomson, Autumn, 1. 801. cloud-drift (kloud'drift), n. Irregular, drifting clouds; cloud-rack. Far off, above the frigid western hills, lay violet-fringed cloud-drifts. S. Judd , Margaret, i. 17. Decay of Christian Piety. cloudfult, a. [ME. cloudeful; His fair demeanour, Lovely behaviour, unappallèd spirit, Spoke him not base in blood, however clouded . Ford , Perkin Warbeck, iv. 3. 3. To variegate with spots or waves of a darker color appearing as if laid on over a lighter, or the reverse: as, to cloud a panel; a clouded sky in a picture.-4. To place under a cloud, as of misfortune, disgrace, etc.; sully; tarnish: as, his character was clouded with suspicion. I would not be a stander-by, to hear My sovereign mistre clouded so. IMG:content-0643.png:[blocks in formation] 1.] Dark; blind; ignorant. To wasche away oure cloudeful offence. Chaucer, Orison to the Virgin, 1. 109. cloudily (klou'di-li), adv . In a cloudy manner; with clouds; darkly; obscurely; not perspicuously. Plato. talks too metaphysically and cloudily about it [the highest good]. Cudworth , Intellectual System, p. 205. cloudine (klou'di-nes), n. The state of being cloudy or clouded.