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Answer for the clue "Emulate certain clouds ", 4 letters:
scud

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale) [syn: scudding ] v. run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart , dash , scoot , flash , shoot ] run before a gale [syn: rack ] [also: scudding , scudded ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context slang Scotland English) naked. alt. (context slang Scotland English) naked. n. 1 The act of scudding. 2 Clouds or rain driven by the wind. 3 A gust of wind. 4 (context Bristol English) A scab on a wound. 5 A small flight of larks, or other birds, ...

Usage examples of scud.

STILL-SGI isszandcaret so- m caret zandz caret caret caret But backslash Tattered clouds were scudding across the face of the moon comwhen Seregil and Alec set out for the Cockerel.

WMD, no small concern in a nation that had once amassed a considerable arsenal of chemical weapons, biological agents, and Scud missiles, and was not now a model of governmental organization.

Masonry and glass gleamed higher than high, up into a blueness where a few bits of cloud scudded along on the breeze that gave me its cool kiss.

But, cleared her eyes of that ensanguined scud Distorting her true features, to be shown Benignly luminous, one who bears Humanity at breast, and she might learn How surely the excelling generous find Renouncement is possession.

By an expiring blue-shot beam of moonlight, Farina beheld a vast realm of gloom filling the hollow of the West, and the moon was soon extinguished behind sluggish scraps of iron scud detached from the swinging bulk of ruin, as heavily it ground on the atmosphere in the first thunder-launch of motion.

Crofton and Jolles scudded toward the stairway that offered departure before the police arrived.

I pointed to the west where the mountainous shore-line, not five miles away yet barely visible through the driving rain and low scudding cloud, ran in an almost sheer drop from the head of Loch Lairg to the entrance to Torbay Sound.

They scudded across the sky so rapidly Miss Mahan got dizzy looking at them.

A scarcity of houses, the hills crowding in, all smoothly sheeted rumps and shoulders and domes, her marijuana-stoked thoughts turned whimsical: they seemed to be scudding nervily through a dense stalled parade of white elephants.

There also were three bottles of pisco, and as Switters looked from the booze to Inti and back again, a dark puff of worry scudded his inner sky.

All the time the reflection of the water was playing on the raftered eaves, and the sun streamed in and the cows grazed on the top of the hill opposite, and the clouds scudded across the sky in full panorama.

The skipper had managed to get a star reading the night before so the ship was now under reefed sails, scudding southward over the tossing sea.

Cloud-shadow and scudding sun-burst Were swift on the floor of the sea, And a mad wind was romping its worst, But what was their magic to me?

Moderately buffeted, half-hidden by the shreds of thicker gas scudding across the lamplit night, Fassin had made his way up and out across the sheen of rooftops.

Gavril could see his winged shadow, darker than a cloud, scudding over the snowy fields and hills below.