Word Meanings - CLOUD-BUILT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith.

Related words: (words related to CLOUD-BUILT)

• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• CLOUDINESS
  The state of being cloudy.
• CLOUDLAND
  Dreamland.
• CLOUD-BURST
  A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
• UNSUBSTANTIALIZE
  To make unsubstantial.
• CLOUDBERRY
  A species of raspberry growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.
• VANISHMENT
  A vanishing.
• PALACE
  1. The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception. Chaucer. 2. The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage. 3. Loosely,
• CLOUD-COMPELLER
  Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. Pope.
• BUILT
  Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. Dryden.
• CLOUDING
  1. A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing. 2. A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals. Knight.
• IMAGINARY
  Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity
• CLOUDLESS
  Without a cloud; clear; bright. A cloudless winter sky. Bankroft. -- Cloud"less*ly, adv. -- Cloud"less*ness, n.
• CLOUD
  arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, susponded in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13. Note: A classification of clouds according
• CLOUDILY
  In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely. Dryden.
• CLOUD-BUILT
  Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith.
• CLOUDLET
  A little cloud. R. Browning. Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping. Coleridge.
• VANISH
  esvanuïr, F. s'évanouir; fr. L. vanus empty, vain; cf. L. vanescere, 1. To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight
• CLOUDY
  1. Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky. 2. Consisting of a cloud or clouds. As Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended. Ex. xxxiii. 9 3. Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open
• CLOUDAGE
  Mass of clouds; cloudiness. A scudding cloudage of shapes. Coleridge.
• JERRY-BUILT
  Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
• ICE-BUILT
  1. Composed of ice. 2. Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.
• UNCLOUD
  To free from clouds; to unvail; to clear from obscurity, gloom, sorrow, or the like. Beau. & Fl.
• DISCLOUD
  To clear from clouds. Fuller.
• INTERCLOUD
  To cloud. Daniel.
• OVERBUILT
  Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.
• BECLOUD
  To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud. If thou becloud the sunshine of thine eye. Quarles.
• SEA-BUILT
  Built at, in, or by the sea.