Nimbus

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A rain cloud; one of the four principal varieties of clouds. ·see Cloud.

II. Nimbus ·noun A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, ·etc.; a halo. ·see Aureola, and Glory, ·noun, 5.

Related Words

nimbus
nimbus, i (gen. plur. nimbūm, Pac. ap. Trag. Rel. 412 Rib.), m. [Sanscr. nabhas, cloud, vapor; Gr. ν...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
nimbus
nimbus ī, m NEB-, a rain-storm, pouring rain, thick shower : terrere animos nimbis: densus, L.: ex...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
nimbus
Ragged and hanging clouds resolving into rain. (See cumulo-cirro-stratus.) ...

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