Word Meanings - CLOUD-BUILT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith.
Related words: (words related to CLOUD-BUILT)
- COWPER'S GLANDS
Two small glands discharging into the male urethra. - CLOUDINESS
The state of being cloudy. - CLOUDLAND
Dreamland. - CLOUD-BURST
A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once. - UNSUBSTANTIALIZE
To make unsubstantial. - CLOUDBERRY
A species of raspberry growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit. - VANISHMENT
A vanishing. - PALACE
1. The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception. Chaucer. 2. The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage. 3. Loosely, - CLOUD-COMPELLER
Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. Pope. - BUILT
Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. Dryden. - CLOUDING
1. A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing. 2. A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals. Knight. - IMAGINARY
Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity - CLOUDLESS
Without a cloud; clear; bright. A cloudless winter sky. Bankroft. -- Cloud"less*ly, adv. -- Cloud"less*ness, n. - CLOUD
arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, susponded in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13. Note: A classification of clouds according - CLOUDILY
In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely. Dryden. - CLOUD-BUILT
Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith. - CLOUDLET
A little cloud. R. Browning. Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping. Coleridge. - VANISH
esvanuïr, F. s'évanouir; fr. L. vanus empty, vain; cf. L. vanescere, 1. To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight - CLOUDY
1. Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky. 2. Consisting of a cloud or clouds. As Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended. Ex. xxxiii. 9 3. Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open - CLOUDAGE
Mass of clouds; cloudiness. A scudding cloudage of shapes. Coleridge. - JERRY-BUILT
Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses. - ICE-BUILT
1. Composed of ice. 2. Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray. - UNCLOUD
To free from clouds; to unvail; to clear from obscurity, gloom, sorrow, or the like. Beau. & Fl. - DISCLOUD
To clear from clouds. Fuller. - INTERCLOUD
To cloud. Daniel. - OVERBUILT
Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town. - BECLOUD
To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud. If thou becloud the sunshine of thine eye. Quarles. - SEA-BUILT
Built at, in, or by the sea.