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to stop; to impede; to retard; as, the bar in the harbor obstructs the passage of ships; clouds obstruct the light of the sun; unwise rules obstruct legislation. "Th' impatience of obstructed love." Johnson.

To shade; to darken; to cloud. [R.] Howell.

To darken; to cloud. [Obs.] Boyle.

rge brass wind instrument, formerly used in the orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves; -- now generally supplanted by bass and contrabass tubas. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

Manifestation; token; portent. Dryden. We asked of God that some ostent might clear Our cloudy business, who gave us sign. Chapman.

A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor.

To excel in volume of ringing sound; to ring louder than.

her than, in place or position, with the idea of covering; -- opposed to Ant: under; as, clouds are over our heads; the smoke rises over the city. The mercy seat that is over the testimony. Ex. xxx. 6. Over them gleamed far off the crimson banners of morning. Longfellow.

To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind. When this cloud of sorrow's overblown. Waller.

To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken. Those clouds that overcast your morn shall fly. Dryden.

To come or pass over; to spreads over. [Obs.] And overcome us like a summer's cloud. Shak.

n any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams doth overlay. Spenser. Framed of cedar overlaid with gold. Milton. And overlay With this portentous bridge the dark abyss. Milton.

To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7.

Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph. Dryden. "Public pæans of congratulation." De Quincey.

See Panary. Loudon.

In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently. Sorrow expresses itself . . . loudly and passionately. South.

To mutter; as prayers. [The hooded clouds] patter their doleful prayers. Longfellow. To patter flash, to talk in thieves' cant. [Slang]

In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.

A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc. "A fair peal of artillery." Hayward. Whether those peals of praise be his or no. Shak. And a deep thunder, peal on peal, afar. Byron.

ssiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. The children billows seem to pelt the clouds. Shak.