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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



283 words match “CLOUD”

NEBULATION n.
The condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill- defined, color mark.
NEBULE n.
A little cloud; a cloud. [Obs.] O light without nebule. Old Ballad.
NEBULE; NEBULY a.
Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.
NEBULOSE a.
Nebulous; cloudy. Derham.
NEBULOSITY n.
The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness. The nebulosity ... of the mother idiom. I. Disraeli.
NEBULOUS a. 2 definitions
Cloudy; hazy; misty.
NEBULY n.
A line or a direction composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resembe a cloud. See NÉbulÉ
NEPHELODOMETER n.
An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.
NEPHELOMETER n.
An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.
NEPHOSCOPE n.
An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity.
NIGHTED a.
Darkness; clouded. [R.] Shak.
NIMBIFEROUS a.
Serving to bring clouds or stormy weather.
NIMBOSE a.
Cloudy; stormy; tempestuous.
NIMBUS n.
A rain cloud; one of the four principal varieties of clouds. See Cloud.
NUBECULA n. 2 definitions
Specifically, the Magellanic clouds.
NUBIA n.
A light fabric of wool, worn on the head by women; a cloud.
NUBIFEROUS a.
Bringing, or producing, clouds.
NUBIGENOUS a.
Born of, or produced from, clouds. [R.]
NUBILATE v.
To cloud. [Obs.]
NUBILOSE; NUBILOUS a.
Cloudy. [R.]
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