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e surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. They cast up a bank against the city. 2 Sam. xx. 15.

as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton.

To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

r zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.

To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [Archaic] The clouds benight the sky. Garth.

To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton.

d or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud. Shak.

To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South.

The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.

blow over, to pass away without effect; to cease, or be dissipated; as, the storm and the clouds have blown over. -- To blow up, to be torn to pieces and thrown into the air as by an explosion of powder or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. "The enemy…

as boundless or alluring as the blue sky, or, perhaps, because designed to clear away the clouds and fogs from the simple investor's horizon. [Colloq.]

ess; hence, to woo. [Obs.] I will board her, though she chide as loud As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. Shak.

To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads. Milton.

g vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. [Obs.] Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. Shak.

Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13.

To burst forth violently, as a storm. The clouds are still above; and, while I speak, A second deluge o'er our head may break. Shak.

reast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill. Mountains on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest. Milton.

A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds.

er. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.

A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality.