encloud
English
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[edit]encloud (third-person singular simple present enclouds, present participle enclouding, simple past and past participle enclouded)
- (transitive) To envelop in clouds.
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Virgil's Gnat”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
- The heavens on every side enclouded be:
Black storms and fogs are blowen up from far
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “encloud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)