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ble vapor, or watery particles, susponded in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13.

Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith.

A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.

Having clouds resting on the top or head; reaching to the clouds; as, cloud-capped mountains.

Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. [Poetic.] Pope.

Mass of clouds; cloudiness. [R.] A scudding cloudage of shapes. Coleridge.

A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamæmerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.

In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely. Dryden.

The state of being cloudy.

A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.

Dreamland.

Without a cloud; clear; bright. A cloudless winter sky. Bankroft. -- Cloud"less*ly, adv. -- Cloud"less*ness, n.

A little cloud. R. Browning. Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping. Coleridge.

Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.

To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud. If thou becloud the sunshine of thine eye. Quarles.

To clear from clouds. [Archaic] Fuller.

To envelop in clouds; to cloud. [R.] Spenser.

To envelop as in clouds; to darken; to obscure. Milton.

To cloud. [R.] Daniel.

To cover or overspread with clouds; to becloud; to overcast.