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To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up. Worthies, away! The scene begins to cloud. Shak.

better part of life in! B. Jonson. The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene. Addison.

One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.

il (k. Etym: [F.] (a) A single view; a rapid glance of the eye; a comprehensive view of a scene; as much as can be seen at one view. (b) The general effect of a picture. (c) (Mil.) The faculty or the act of comprehending at a glance the weakness or strength of a military position, of a certain arrangement of troops, th…

sed by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially.

ull of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. These eyes behold The deathful scene. Pope.

bing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, o…

nversation; interlocutory. The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. Dryden.

. . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined. Cowper.

dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle.

are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.

shed by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.

Gloomy; sad; melancholy. This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. Bentley.

They go out, or retire from the scene; as, exeunt all except Hamlet. See 1st Exit.

Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish. [R.] An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness. Sprat. The idle and expensive are dangerous. Sir W. Temple.

or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.

accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.

Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.

A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.

Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. Pope. A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [Colloq.] -- Fighting crab (Zoöl.), the fiddler crab. -- Fighting fish (Zoöl.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fi…