A rock; boulder; a hill.
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.
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.
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.
A surname.
From Middle English cloud, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto...
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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.