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Cloudy

adjective

(compar. cloudier; superl. cloudiest)

Lacking definite form or limits. Synonyms: nebulose, nebulous. "Nebulous distinction between pride and conceit"

Full of or covered with clouds.

(of liquids) clouded as with sediment. Synonyms: mirky, muddy, murky, turbid. "Muddy coffee" , "Murky waters"

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... caves and fells, With flowers and leaves and herbage spread; Green meadows; shadowy groves where light is low; Lawns watered with the rills That cruel Love hath made me shed, Cast from these cloudy eyes so dark with woe; Thou stream that still dost know What fell pangs pierce my heart, So dost thou murmur back my moan; Lone bird that chauntest tone for tone, While in our descant drear Love ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds

... is silent and cheerless, Like a lonesome and desert-like plain. If but one were courageous and fearless And would cry out aloud in his pain! Neither storm-wind nor starshine by night, And the days neither cloudy nor bright: O my people, how sad is thy state, How gray ...

— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

... In summer, on cloudy and stormy days, mercurial vapors rise more readily and quickly than in the temperature of autumn or winter. From 60 degrees upwards towards the boiling point (660 deg.), the vapors of mercury rise in greater abundance and collect in larger ...

— American Handbook of the Daguerrotype • Samuel D. Humphrey

... Mururea called him, lived out the few months of his life. That last deceptive stage of his insidious disease had given him a fictitious strength. On many occasions, accompanied by the trader's children, he would walk to the north point of the low-lying island, where the cloudy spume of the surge was thickest and where the hollow and resonant crust of the black reef was perforated with countless air-holes, through which the water hissed and roared, and shot high in air, to fall again in ...

— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke

... the air came the first stork, and the second followed him. A lovely child sat on the back of each, and they alighted on the field, kissed the earth, and kissed the old silent man, and he disappeared, shrouded in the cloudy mist. And the story of the year ...

— What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales • Hans Christian Andersen

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