Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CLOUD-COM-PEL'LER, n.

He that collects clouds; Jove.

CLOUD-COM-PEL'LING, a.

Collecting clouds; or driving clouds; as, cloud-compelling Jove. – Waller. Dryden.

CLOUD'-COV-ER-ED, a.

Enveloped with clouds. – Young.

CLOUD-DIS-PEL'LING, a.

Having power to disperse clouds. – Dryden.

CLOUD-E-CLIP'SED, a.

Eclipsed by a cloud. – Shak.

CLOUD'ED, pp.

Overcast; overspread with clouds; obscured; darkened; rendered gloomy or sullen; variegated with colored spots or veins.

CLOUD'-FENC-ED, a.

Fenced with clouds.

CLOUD'-GIRT, a.

Girt with clouds.

CLOUD'I-LY, adv. [from cloudy.]

With clouds; darkly; obscurely. – Dryden.

CLOUD'I-NESS, n.

1. The state of being overcast with clouds; as, the cloudiness of the atmosphere. – Harvey.
2. Obscurity; gloom; want of brightness.
3. Darkness of appearance; variegation of colors in a fossil or other body.
4. Appearance of gloom or sullenness; as, cloudiness of aspect.

CLOUD'ING, ppr.

Overspreading with clouds; obscuring; giving an appearance of gloom or sullenness.

CLOUD'-KISS-ING, a.

Touching the clouds. – Shak.

CLOUD'LESS, a.

Being without a cloud; unclouded; clear; bright; luminous; as, cloudless skies. – Pope.

CLOUD'LESS-LY, adv.

Without clouds.

CLOUD'-PIERC-ING, a.

Penetrating or rising above the clouds. – Philips.

CLOUD'-TOPT, a.

Having the top covered with a cloud. – Gray.

CLOUD'-TOUCH-ING, a.

Touching the clouds. – Sandys.

CLOUD'-WRAPT, a.

Involved in clouds. – Bowring.

CLOUD'Y, a.

1. Overcast with clouds; obscured with clouds; as, a cloudy day; a cloudy sky; a cloudy night.
2. Consisting of a cloud or clouds; as, a cloudy pillar. – Ex. xxxiii. 9.
3. Obscure; dark; not easily understood; as, cloudy and confused notions. – Watts.
4. Having the appearance of gloom; indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful; as, cloudy looks. – Spenser. Shak.
5. Indicating gloom or sullenness; as, cloudy wrath.
6. Marked with veins or spots of dark or various hues, as marble.
7. Not bright; as, a cloudy diamond. – Boyle.

CLOUGH, n. [cluf; Sax. clough, a cleft.]

A cleft in a hill. In commerce, an allowance of two pounds in every hundred weight, for the turn of the scale, that the commodity may hold out in retailing. [Not used in America.]

CLOUT, n. [Sax. clut, a patch, a plaster, a plate, a seam or joint; Sw. klut; W. clwt, a patch, a clout; clwtiaw, to patch; Sax. gecluted, sewed together, clouted, patched; gesceod mid gecludedum scon, shod with clouted shoes. This undoubtedly signifies patched shoes, for clut in Saxon does not signify a nail. The word clout, a nail, may be from the French, clou, clouter, from L. clavus, from the root of L. claudo, cludo. Whether clouted brogues in Shakspeare signify patched shoes or shoes studded with nails, let the critic determine. Such shoes are common in England, and were formerly worn in America. The primary sense is, to thrust or put on; hence the sense of blow.]

1. A patch; a piece of cloth or leather, &c., to close a breach.
2. A piece of cloth for mean purposes. – Spenser.
3. A piece of white cloth, for archers to shoot at. [Not now used.] – Shak.
4. An iron plate on an axle-tree, to keep it from wearing.
5. [Fr. clou, clouter.] A small nail.
6. In vulgar language, a blow with the hand. – New England. Chalmers.

CLOUT, v.t.

1. To patch; to mend by sewing on a piece or patch; as clouted shoon, in Milton. This is the sense as understood by Johnson. Mason understands the word clouted to signify nailed, studded with small nails, from the French clouter, and the following words in Shakspeare, “whose rudeness answered my steps too loud,” give some countenance to Mason's interpretation. In this case, the verb clout must signify, to nail, or fasten with nails; to stud.
2. To cover with a piece of cloth. – Spenser.
3. To join clumsily; as, clouted sentences. – Ascham.
4. To cover or arm with an iron plate.
5. To strike; to give a blow. – Beaum. Clouted cream, in Gay, is evidently a mistake for clotted cream.

CLOUT'ED, pp.

Patched; mended clumsily; covered with a clout.

CLOUT'ER-LY, a.

Clumsy; awkward. – Mortimer.

CLOUT'ING, ppr.

Patching; covering with a clout.