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A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder.

To free from clouds; to unvail; to clear from obscurity, gloom, sorrow, or the like. Beau. & Fl.

In a higher place; overhead; into or from heaven; as, the clouds above.

To deceive; to impose on. [Obs.] Their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud, and abused by a double object. Jer. Taylor.

ects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt.

Clouded; obscured. [R.]

ring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded.

the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

A fleecy cloud formation consisting of large whitish or grayish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows.

A cloud formation similar to cirro-stratus, but heavier and at a lower level.

Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing. "Ambient air." Milton. "Ambient clouds." Pope.

ed by; among. "This fair tree amidst the garden." "Unseen amid the throng." "Amidst thick clouds." Milton. "Amidst acclamations." "Amidst the splendor and festivity of a court." Macaulay. But rather famish them amid their plenty. Shak.

a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.

or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning.

o; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to. [Obs.] That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds. Shak.

To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy. For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Phattaint. Spenser. Lest she with blame her honor should attaint. Spenser.

Daring; spirited; adventurous. As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious. Milton.

[Obs.] It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud. Jer. Taylor. Audit ale, a kind of ale, brewed at the English universities, orig. for the day of audit. -- Audit house, Audit room, an appendage to a cathedral, for the transaction of its business.

Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless. Azure stone (Min.), the lapis lazuli; also, the lazulite.

part, as of a mountain or ridge. [The mountains] their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds. Milton.