clotty 
clotty (klot'i), a. [< dot* + -y*.] Full of clots 
or small hard masses; full of concretions or 
clods. 
The matter expectorated is thin, and mixed with thick. 
dotty, bluish streaks. Harvey, Consumption. 
cldture (klo'tur), . [F.] Same as closure, 5. 
cloucht (klouch), . A variant of clutch 1 . 
cloud 1 (kloud), . [< ME. cloud, cloudc (with 
rare irreg. variants clod, eloyd), a cloud, prob. 
a new use of ME. cloud, earlier elude, clud, a 
mass of rock, a hill (in ME. partly confused 
with clot*, clod*, q. v.), < AS. clud, a mass of 
rock, a hill (the AS. word for < cloud ' was wol- 
cen, > E. welkin, q. v.). Cf. cloud' 2 .'} 1. A col- 
lection of visible vapor or watery particles sus- 
pended in the air at a considerable altitude. 
A like collection of vapors upon the earth is called fog. 
The average height of the clouds is estimated at between 
two and three miles, but it varies at different times of the 
year The forms of clouds are indefinitely variable ; they 
are commonly classified roughly as follows : (a) The cir- 
rus, a cloud somewhat resembling a lock or locks of hair 
Cirrus. 
(the cats-tail of the sailor), consisting of wavy parallel or 
divergent filaments, generally at a great height in the at- 
mosphere, and spreading indefinitely, (b) The cumulus, 
a cloud which assumes the form of dense convex or coni- 
cal heaps, resting on a horizontal base. Also called day 
or summer cloud, (c) The stratus, also called fall-cloud 
from its lowness, or cloud of niyht, an extended, continu- 
ous, level sheet of cloud, increasing from beneath. These 
three principal forms produce in combination forms de- 
nominated as follows : (d) Cirro-cumulus, a connected sys- 
tem of small roundish clouds placed in close order and 
separated by intervals of sky, often occurring in warm 
dry weather. Also called mackerel-sky, (e) Cirro-stratus, 
a horizontal or slightly inclined sheet, attenuated at its 
circumference, concave downward or undulated. (/) Cu- 
mido-stratus, a cloud in which the structure of the cumu- 
lus is mixed with that of the cirro-stratus or cirro-cumu- 
lus, the cumulus at the top and overhanging a flatfish 
stratum or base, (y) Himbus, cumulo-cirro-stratus, or 
rain-clowl, a dense cloud spreading out into a crown of 
cirrus and passing beneath into a shower, (ft) Qlobo-cumu- 
lus, a term applied by Millot to slightly elongated, hemi- 
spherical, grayish pockets appearing in the mass of rain- 
clouds. 
2. A semblance of a cloud, or something spread 
out like or having some effect of a cloud : com- 
monly followed by a specification : as, a cloud 
of dust ; a ship under a cloud of canvas (that is, 
a large spread of sails). 
The archers on both sides bent their bows, 
And the cloud* of arrows flew. 
RoUn Hood and the Valiant Knight (Child's Ballads, 
[V. 391). 
A pitchy cloud 
Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind. 
Milton, P. L., i. 340. 
3. A clouded appearance ; a dark area of color 
over a lighter material, or the reverse, as bloom 
1058 
upon a varnished surface. 4. In zooL, an ill- 
defined, obscure, or indistinct spot or mark, 
often a spot produced by the internal structure 
seen through a semi-transparent surface. 
Larva . . . beneath with opaque white clouds. Say. 
5. Anything that obscures, darkens, threatens, 
or the like. 
He has a cloud in s face. Shak., A. and C., ill. 2. 
6. A multitude ; a collection ; a throng. [Now 
rare.] 
So great a cloud of witnesses. Heb. xii. 1. 
The bishop of London did cut down a noble cloud of 
trees at Fulham. Aubrey, Lord Bacon's Apophthegms. 
7. A woman's head-wrap made of loosely knit 
wool Cloud on a title. See title. In Cloud t, secret- 
ly ; covertly. 
These, sir, are businesses ask to be carried 
With caution, and in cloud. 
B. Jonson, The Devil is an Ass, ii. I. 
In the clouds. () Above the earth and practical things ; 
high-flown ; unreal ; unsubstantial ; illusory, (b) Absorb- 
ed in day-dreams ; visionary ; absent-minded ; abstracted, 
(c) Out of ordinary comprehension ; in the realms of fancy 
or non-reality. 
Though poets may of inspiration boast, 
Their rage, ill-govern 'd, in the clouds is lost. 
Waller, On Koscommon's tr. of Horace. 
Magellanlc clouds. See Mayellamc. Under a cloud, 
in difficulties or. misfortune ; in an uncertain or unfortu- 
nate condition ; especially, under suspicion or in disgrace. 
I will say that for the English, if they were deils, that 
they are a ceeveleesed people to gentlemen that are under 
a cloud. Scott, Redgauntlet, II. xiii. 
They had attached themselves to Isabella in the early 
part of her life, when her fortunes were still under a cloud. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 13. 
Under cloudt, under heaven ; under the sun. 
Was neuer kyng wider cloude his knightes more louet, 
Ne gretter of giftes to his goode men. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3873. 
= Syn. 1. Haze, Fog, etc. Bee rain, n. 
cloud 1 (kloud), v. [< cloud*, .] I. tram. 1. 
To overspread with a cloud or clouds: as, the 
sky is clouded. Hence 2. To cover as if with 
clouds : in various figurative applications, as to 
obscure, darken, render gloomy or sullen, etc. : 
said of aspect or mood. 
To cloud and darken the clearest truths. 
Decay of Christian Piety. 
His fair demeanour, 
Lovely behaviour, unappalled spirit, 
Spoke him not base in blood, however clouded. 
Ford, Perkin Warbeck, Iv. 3. 
3. To variegate with spots or waves of a darker 
color appearing as if laid on over a lighter, or 
the reverse : as, to cloud a panel ; a clouded sky 
in a picture. 4. To place under a cloud, as of 
misfortune, disgrace, etc. ; sully; tarnish: as, 
his character was clouded with suspicion. 
I would not be a stander-by, to hear 
My sovereign mistress clouded so. 
Shak., W. T., i. 2. 
Clouded cane. See canel. To Cloud a title. See cloud 
OH a title, under title. 
This disputation concerning these lands has clouded the 
title for a quarter of a century. 
Appleton's Ann. Cyc. (1886), p. 250. 
II. intrans. To grow cloudy; become ob- 
scured with clouds : sometimes with up. 
Worthies, away : the scene begins to cloud. 
Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 
It clouded up before eight o'clock. Bryant. 
Cloud 2 t, > [ME., earlier elude, clud, < AS. 
clud, a mass of rock, a hill. Cf. cloud 1 , and 
clod 1 , clot*.] A rock; a hill. 
Wormes woweth under cloudes. 
Spec, of Lyric Poetry (ed. Wright). 
The eludes to the se shal rln 
ffor to hid them tharin. 
Anticriit (ed. Morris), 1. 70s. 
cloudage (klou'daj), n. [< cloud 1 + -age.'} A 
mass of clouds; cloudiness: as, "a scudding 
cloudage of shapes," Coleridge. [Bare.] 
cloudberry (kloud 'ber^i), n.; pi. cloudberries 
(-iz). [< cloud 1 (appar. in earlier sense of 'a 
round mass,' in ref . 
to the berries; cf. 
the other name Icnot- 
berry) + berry 1 .'] A 
species of dwarf 
raspberry, Bubus 
Chamarmorus, with 
a creeping root- 
stock and simple 
stem, from 4 to 8 
inches high, it is 
found in arctic and sub- 
arctic regions of the 
northern hemisphere, 
on the mountains of 
Great Britain and cen- 
tral Europe, and in some 
localities in Canada and 
New England. The flow- 
cloudy 
ers are large and white, and the berries, which are of a 
very agreeable taste, are orange-yellow in color, and con- 
sist of a few large drupes. Also called knotkerry and 
mountain bramble. 
cloud-born (kloud'born), a. [Tr. of L. nubigena, 
an epithet of the centaurs.] Born of a cloud. 
Cloud-bom centaurs. Dryden, Knri.l, 
cloud-built (kloud 'bilt), a. 1. Built up of 
clouds. 
The sun went down 
Behind the cloud-built columns of the west. 
Camper, Odyssey. 
2. Fanciful; imaginary; chimerical; fantas- 
tic : applied to day-dreams or castles in the air. 
And so vanished my cloud-built palace. 
Goldsmith, Essays. 
cloud-burst (kloud'berst), n. A violent down- 
pour of rain in large quantity and over a very 
limited area. 
The most destructive cloud-burst ever known in Grant 
county . . . extended over twelve miles in length. Rocks 
weighing tons were washed loose on the hills, and came 
down like an avalanche, sweeping away fences, houses, 
and groves; dry gulches were tilled and overflowing; the 
smallest rivulets became roaring torrents. 
Ainer. Meteor. Jour., II. 566. 
cloud-capped, cloud-capt (kloud ' kapt), a. 
Capped with clouds ; touching the clouds ; lofty. 
The cloud-capp'd towers, 
the gorgeous palaces. 
Shak., Tempest, iv. 1. 
Cloudberry (Rttbuf Cftamffmorut ). 
cloud-compeller (kloud'kom-pel"er), H. [Atr. 
of Gr. vetye'AriyepeTa, lit. ' cl'oud-gatherer,' a Ho- 
meric epithet of Zeus (Jupiter), < vftyi/.ri, cloud 
(see nebula), + aycipt.iv, gather: see agora.'] 
He who collects or drives together the clouds : 
an epithet of Zeus or Jupiter. 
cloud-compelling (kloud'kom-pel"ing), a. Col- 
lecting or driving together the clouds: applied 
classically to Jupiter. 
Bacchus, the seed of cloud-compelling Jove. 
Waller, On the Danger His Majesty Escaped. 
Abyssinia's cloud-compelling cliffs. 
Thomson, Autumn, 1. 801. 
cloud-drift (kloud'drift), n. Irregular, drift- 
ing clouds ; cloud-rack. 
Far off, above the frigid western hills, lay violet-fringed 
cloud-dr(fts. S. Judd, Margaret, 1. 17. 
cloudfult, a. [ME. cloudeful; < cloud* + -ful, 
1.] Dark; blind; ignorant. 
To wasche away oure cloudeful offence. 
Chaucer, Orison to the Virgin, 1. 109. 
cloudily (klou'di-li), adv. In a cloudy manner; 
with clouds; darkly; obscurely; not perspicu- 
ously. 
Plato . . . talks too metaphysically and cloudily about it 
(the highest good). Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 205. 
cloudiness (klou'di-nes), . The state of being 
cloudy or clouded. 
clouding (klou'ding), n. [Verbal n. of cloud*, 
t'.] The appearance of cloudiness; unequal 
blending or distribution of light and shade or 
of colors ; specifically, a clouded appearance 
given to silks, ribbons, and yarns in the pro- 
cess of dyeing. 
The cloudings of the tortoise-shell of Hermes. 
Raskin, Lectures on Art, p. 166. 
cloud-kissing (kloud'kis"ing), a. Touching 
the clouds; lofty. 
Cloud-kissing Ilion. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 1370. 
cloud-land (kloud'land). n. The region of the 
clouds ; a place above the earth or away from 
the practical things of life; dream-land; the 
realm of fancy. 
cloudless (kloud'les), a. [< cloud* + -less.] 
Being without a cloud ; unclouded ; clear ; 
bright : as, cloudless skies. 
cloudlessly (kloud'les-li), adv. In a cloudless 
manner ; without clouds. 
Cloudlet (kloud'let), n. [< cloud* + dim. -let.] 
A small cloud. 
Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping. 
cloud-rack (kloud'rak), n. An assemblage of 
irregular, drifting clouds ; floating cloudy vapor ; 
cloud-drift. 
If there is no soul in man higher than all that, did it 
.reach to sailing on the cloud-rack and spinning sea-sand; 
then I say man is but an animal. Carlyle. 
cloud-ring (kloud'ring), . A ring of clouds; 
specifically, a cloudy belt or region north and 
south of the equator. 
cloud-topped, cloud-topt (kloud 'topt), a. Hav- 
ing the top covered with clouds. Gray. 
cloudy (klou'di), a. [< ME. cloudy, clondi (cf. 
AS. clutlig, rocky, hilly); < cloud* + -y*.] 1. 
Overcast with clouds ; obscured by clouds : as, 
a cloudy day; a cloudy sky. 
And bring in cloudy night immediately. 
Shot., R. and J., lit 2. 
