cloudful
Collocations
3VERB + CLOUDFUL
like, stamps
CLOUDFUL + NOUN
angels, hobgoblins, i've, life, morn, skies
PREP.
on, on, with
Definitions
adj
Abounding with clouds, clouded, cloudy.
From the waterless land and flora, in the thundery landscape, the drying pitch of dayshine, the shine that was parching […] has actually there contracted suddenly vast masses of thunder clouds, into the thick thunder rainfall, from the cloudful sky.
Or does some brighter spirit, un forlorn, Send you, my little sister of the wood, To say to some one on a cloudful morn, "Life lives through death, my brother, all is good ?"
Dark, dimmed; troubled, turbid.
His words, accordingly, proceeding from a mind "in a dark, hot, cloudful state," were "metallic, meteoric, ball-like."
noun
The amount contained in a cloud.
One might suppose himself angling in Lake Avernus, with a cloudful of hobgoblins on each side of him!
A shuffling from the pit is drowned by the tumult of the top gallery, where the crowd whoops and whistles and stamps like a cloudful of angels on a spree.
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5From the waterless land and flora, in the thundery landscape, the drying pitch of dayshine, the shine that was parching […] has actually there contracted suddenly vast masses of thunder clouds, into t
WiktionaryOr does some brighter spirit, un forlorn, Send you, my little sister of the wood, To say to some one on a cloudful morn, "Life lives through death, my brother, all is good ?"
WiktionaryCities at night, and cloudful skies, I've wanted; […]
WiktionaryOne might suppose himself angling in Lake Avernus, with a cloudful of hobgoblins on each side of him!
WiktionaryA shuffling from the pit is drowned by the tumult of the top gallery, where the crowd whoops and whistles and stamps like a cloudful of angels on a spree.
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