Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.