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A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.

despatch, Importunes personal conference. Shak. What business has the tortoise among the clouds L'Estrange.

Dimness; cloudiness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called "blooming."

sure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.

m Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.

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Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear. Denham. Fair as the moon, clear as the sun. Canticles vi. 10.

To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden.

To form into clumps or masses. [Obs.] Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds. Dr. H. More.

tars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud.

To infold; to embrace. [Obs.] Seemed to comply, Cloudlike, the daintie deitie. Herrick.

ce, any solemn assembly or council. To council summons all his mighty peers, Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, A gloomy consistory. Milton.

lainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess stood. Sir W. Scott.

To plot; to plan; to combine for. Angry clouds conspire your overthrow. Bp. Hall.

de sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the snemy were covered from our sight by the woods. A cloud covered the mount. Exod. xxiv. 15. In vain shou striv'st to cover shame with shame. Milton.

To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound. As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. Shak.

crimson; to blush. Ancient towers . . . beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning. De Quincey.