Crossword clues for clouding
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cloud \Cloud\ (kloud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clouded; p. pr. & vb. n. Clouding.]
To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.
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To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.
--Shak.Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.
--Milton.Nothing clouds men's minds and impairs their honesty like prejudice.
--M. Arnold. -
To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.
I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken.
--Shak. -
To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
--Pope.
Clouding \Cloud"ing\, n.
A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.
A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals.
--Knight.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing. 2 A diversity of colours in yarn, recurring at regular intervals. vb. (present participle of cloud English)
WordNet
n. the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky [syn: clouding up]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "clouding".
The lunging Firbolg paused, confusion and fear at the strange happening clouding its gaze.
As Vlasenko sat in the cold of the pod, his breath still clouding the air, his mind on terrible events he had no power to change, a Magnum nuclear-tipped torpedo only seven kilometers away, launched by the Kaliningrad, began to explode.
The tiny mopani bees plagued them during the day, clouding around their mouths and nostrils and eyes in their persistent search for moisture, and in the nights the mosquitoes from the stagnant pools in the valleys took over from them.
With such thoughts surging up in her mind and clouding her brow, Sibley did not find her altogether the same girl that she had been the evening before.
Unfortunately, matter turned out to be double-dealing, two-faced, clouding the results of the investigation with the statements that it was this and it was that.
Gavril stopped at a narrow window and gazed out into the rapidly darkening night, his breath clouding the cold glass.
Kostya stood at the entrance to the stables, arms folded, breath clouding in the frosty air.
This was no small clouding of memory so that he would not be seen by his peers, their young minds lying well open to such bewilderments.
And if you insist on clouding the issue with irrelevant moralism, you find it growing even cloudier when dealing with an alien species.
Nerves on edge, spine stiff, her breath rasping too loud in her own ears, clouding the air before her, she watched them ride into the mists that led to Appleby, three young men in the dark green-and-black velvet uniform of the 95th, the turned-back blacks of their coattails bobbing in rhythm with their horses' gaits, black tassels swaying, cockaded shakos a bit bedraggled in the mist.
I looked up at the sky, which was clouding over again for a rain, and I saw a streak or two of lightning, and I thought, well, maybe a bolt would strike me, coldcocking me for the night, so that Rose would excuse me.
The seeress swallowed, her dampened palms clouding a fo~ crystal's slick surface.
One could see the black cancer of Cathead eating into the land and the sea and clouding the air.
It dropped like a final curtain, dousing the memories, putting out the fires, clouding over the red-hot skies, blotting out the horror.
I know you can't do that entirely, but if you can't keep revenge from clouding your judgment, tell me now, and Geb and Tamman will take the primary strike.