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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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538 words match “LOUD”

CIRRO-CUMULUS n.

See under Cloud.

CIRRO-STRATUS n.

See under Cloud.

See under Cloud.

CLAMOR n. 5 definitions

A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation. Shak.

Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, n.

A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together. The broadsword's deadly clang, As if a thousand anvils rang. Sir W. Scott.

CLAP v. 2 definitions

To talk noisily; to chatter loudly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To make a loud or shrill noise. [Obs.] Golding.

A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision. The roll of cannon and clash of arms. Tennyson.

CLATTER v. 2 definitions

triking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds. Clattering loud with clamk. Longfellow.

CLEAR a. 4 definitions

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.

A cliff. [Obs.] That gainst the craggy clifts did loudly roar. Spenser.

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.

ars; 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.

An overweening idea of one's self; vanity. Plumed with conceit he calls aloud. Cotton.

Like, or related to, the confervae. Loudon.

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

ainly 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.