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cloudcast

cloudcast adjective: overcast.

Adjective

cloudcast

  1. Overcast.
    • [Weather:] Still, cloudcast sky.1875, Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth, Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873, Under Command of Sir T. D. Forsyth: With Historical and Geographical Information Regarding the Possessions of the Ameer of...
    • Fit ending to the cloudcast day. But ah! that was a golden time I spent beneath yon giant lime (And e'en to-day as I look back Through the dark haze of grief and pain That hangs o'er true devotion's track, I'd fain live o'er it all again, For […])1889, The Scottish Art Review, page 64
  2. Cast by clouds.
    • ... frowns come and go / Like cloudcast shadows on the frozen snow.1851, Francis May, Empyrean: And Other Poems, page 18
    • Micah watched the cloudcast shadows skitting over the snowfields before him – then screwed his face up in surprise when some of them seemed to come to a halt. He looked up. The clouds were still moving , and when he looked back at the plains he realized that the motionless grey shapes were not...2013 September 3, Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell, Bloodhoney, Open Road Media, →ISBN

Examples of cloudcast in a sentence

  • Yet- / 'Neath cloudcast skies, "the weeping rain," / Or evening's darkest shade, / You still shine on with unclosed eye, / Undaunted, Undismayed!1918, The Vineyard, page 387:
  • […] one leafless / Cloudcast morning he appeared to me, / Taking time off from his rind-research / To spread his chestnut throat and sing / Outside my window.1993, Michael Hulse, David Kennedy, David Morley, The New Poetry:
  • One never gets angry at a cloudcast sky, because to be overcast is not the true nature of the sky.1999, Madan Gopal Chitkara, Encyclopaedia of Buddhism: A World Faith: Bodhisattva and Selflessness V. 14, →ISBN:
  • ... as when a cloudcast day turns gloriously sudden at sunset's end.2007 September 1, Philip Wesley Comfort, Spirit Journey: Second Edition, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 105:

Origin of cloudcast

cloud + cast

Questions about cloudcast

What does cloudcast mean?
Cloudcast means overcast.
How do you use cloudcast in a sentence?
Yet- / 'Neath cloudcast skies, "the weeping rain," / Or evening's darkest shade, / You still shine on with unclosed eye, / Undaunted, Undismayed!
What part of speech is cloudcast?
Cloudcast is an adjective.

Words near cloudcast in the dictionary

  1. cloudbuster
  2. cloudbusters
  3. cloudbusting
  4. cloudbusts
  5. cloudcapt
  6. cloudcast
  7. cloudcover
  8. cloudcovers
  9. cloudcuckooland
  10. Cloudcuckoolander
  11. Cloudcuckoolanders

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