Word Meanings - INCLOUD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To envelop as in clouds; to darken; to obscure. Milton.

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• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• DARKENING
  Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
• ENVELOPMENT
  1. The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides. 2. That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
• OBSCUREMENT
  The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured; obscuration. Pomfret.
• DARKENER
  One who, or that which, darkens.
• OBSCURE
  obscurus, orig., covered; ob- + a root probably meaning, to cover; cf. L. scutum shield, Skr. sku to cover: cf.F. obscur. 1. Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim. His lamp shall be put out
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• ENVELOPE; ENVELOP
  The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma. (more info) 1. That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• ENVELOP
  To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship. Nocturnal shades this world envelop. J. Philips. (more info)
• OBSCURELY
  In an obscure manner. Milton.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• CLARE-OBSCURE
  See CHIAROSCURO
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.