·adj Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary.
·noun A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection. II. Cloud ·noun A mass or volume of smoke, or ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The Hebrew so rendered means "a covering," because clouds cover the sky. The word is used as a symbo...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Tobacco. Under a cloud; in adversity. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A collection of vapours suspended in the atmosphere. Also, under a cloud of canvas. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The shelter given, and refreshment of rain promised, by clouds give them their peculiar prominence i...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Build>>. II. Built ·noun Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a shi...
A prefix to denote the construction of a vessel, as carvel or clinker-built, bluff-built, frigate-bu...
·noun A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once. ...
·adj Having clouds resting on the top or head; reaching to the clouds; as, cloud-capped mountains. ...
·noun Cloud-gatherer; — an epithet applied to Zeus. ...
The same as cirrus (which see). ...
See stratus. ...
See nimbus. ...
The same as cumulus (which see). ...
See cirro-stratus. ...
·adj Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle. ...
·adj ·see Clinker-built. ...
·adj Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper e...
·adj Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle. ...
·adj Of lofty structure; tall. ...
·adj Loaded with ice. II. Ice-built ·adj Composed of ice. ...
·adj Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses. ...
·adj Built at, in, or by the sea. ...
Synonymous with made-block (which see). The lower masts of large ships are built or made. ...
A vessel or boat, the planks of which are all flush and smooth, the edges laid close to each other, ...
Clinker, or overlapping edges. ...
See clincherI ...
Constructed of fir. ...
The disposition of the decks of such merchant ships as have a descent of some steps from the quarter...
The pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night that God caused to pass before the camp of the child...
Such as has been built in Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, or some of th...
Recently invented guns of great strength, specially adapted to meet the requirements of rifled artil...
A phrase to express the peculiar excellence of our first-class merchantmen. ...