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

Daring; spirited; adventurous. As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious. Milton.

bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds. He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north. Dryden.

To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up. Worthies, away! The scene begins to cloud. Shak.

In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely. Dryden.

The state of being cloudy.

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

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

; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day. Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. Keble.

Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc. So foul a sky clears not without a storm. Shak.

M. Jalapa. Its flowers are white, yellow, and red, and open toward sunset, or earlier in cloudy weather; hence the name. It is also called marvel of Peru, and afternoon lady.

hout opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous undertone; to drone. The cloudy messenger turns me his back, And hums. Shak.

Clouded; having a cloudy appearance.

Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.

Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague. Cold hearts and muddy understandings. Burke. Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled. Shak.

A cloudy appearance in the urine. [Obs.]

Nebulous; cloudy. Derham.

Cloudy; hazy; misty.

Cloudy; stormy; tempestuous.

A cloudy object or appearance in urine. Dunglison.