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A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency. [Written also crizzeling and crizzle.]

Nimbus, or rain cloud. See Nimbus, and Cloud.

A form of cloud. See Cloud.

One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud.

inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains. So when the sun in bed Curtained with cloudy red. Milton.

Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind. Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence, A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul. Addison. It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion. J. D. Forbes.

the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.

A state of distress or trouble. A day of clouds and of thick darkness. Joel. ii. 2. Prince of darkness, the Devil; Satan. "In the power of the Prince of darkness." Locke.

To cover; to overspread. To deck with clouds the uncolored sky. Milton.

st; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray. To replace the cloudy barrier dense. Cowper.

art or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter. From you unclouded depth above. Keble. The depth closed me round about. Jonah ii. 5.

Of measureless depth; unfathomable. In clouds of depthless night. Francis.

light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear. Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous. Landor.

gan the house to dight." Chaucer. Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice. Fairfax. The clouds in thousand liveries dight. Milton.

To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of. Her starry eyes were dimmed with streaming tears. C. Pitt.

Somewhat dim; as, dimmish eyes. "Dimmy clouds." Sir P. Sidney.

Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color. Locke.

o emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely. The cloud, if it were oily or fatty, would not discharge. Bacon.

tering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions. [Satan] gently raised their fainting courage, and dispelled their fears. Milton. I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night. Dryden.…

go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse.