Word Meanings - OBUMBRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To shade; to darken; to cloud. Howell.

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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.
• HOWELL
  The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
• CLOUDINESS
  The state of being cloudy.
• SHADELESS
  Being without shade; not shaded.
• SHADEFUL
  Full of shade; shady.
• CLOUDLAND
  Dreamland.
• CLOUD-BURST
  A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
• DARKENING
  Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
• CLOUDBERRY
  A species of raspberry growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.
• CLOUD-COMPELLER
  Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. Pope.
• 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.
• DARKENER
  One who, or that which, darkens.
• 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.
• 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.
• SHADE
  1. To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from. Milton. I went to crop the sylvan scenes, And shade our altars with their leafy greens. Dryden. 2. To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen;
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• OVERSHADE
  To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.
• UNCLOUD
  To free from clouds; to unvail; to clear from obscurity, gloom, sorrow, or the like. Beau. & Fl.
• NIGHTSHADE
  A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna
• DISCLOUD
  To clear from clouds. Fuller.
• INTERCLOUD
  To cloud. Daniel.
• BECLOUD
  To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud. If thou becloud the sunshine of thine eye. Quarles.
• ENCLOUD
  To envelop in clouds; to cloud. Spenser.