·noun A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
·noun A rupture or hernia; a breach. II. Burst ·vt To <<Break>>. III. Burst ·Impf & ·p.p. of Burst...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The explosion of a shell or any gun. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection. II. Cloud ·noun A mass or volume of smoke, or ...
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 shelter given, and refreshment of rain promised, by clouds give them their peculiar prominence i...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·adj Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. ...
·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. ...
The pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night that God caused to pass before the camp of the child...