cloud

A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

While he thus ſpake, there came a cloud, and ouerſhadowed them, ⁊ they feared, as they entred into the cloude.

So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.

But in one part of the horizon a cloud lay, and the rulers of India were oppressed with a sense of coming disaster. This cloud had begun to form in 1873, and had been continually growing larger; it threw a shadow over gold-debtor nations, and shed a depressing influence over gold-using countries.

Anything unsubstantial.

A dark spot on a lighter material or background.

To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.

The glass clouds when you breathe on it.

To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.

The sky is clouded.

Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.

The horses stamping Their warm breath clouding In the sharp and frosty morning Of the day.

To make obscure.

All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.

To make less acute or perceptive.

Your emotions are clouding your judgement.

The tears began to well up and cloud my vision.

A surname.