Word Meanings - CLOUD-BURST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.

Related words: (words related to CLOUD-BURST)

• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• CLOUDINESS
  The state of being cloudy.
• CLOUDLAND
  Dreamland.
• CLOUD-BURST
  A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• RAINFALL
  A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region. Supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of Sinchul and Singaleleh. Hooker.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• CLOUDBERRY
  A species of raspberry growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.
• WHOLESALE
  1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
• CLOUD-COMPELLER
  Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. Pope.
• SUDDENTY
  Suddenness; a sudden. On a suddenty, on a sudden. Sir W. Scott.
• 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.
• WHOLE-SOULED
  Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
• COPIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style. To imitatethe copiousness of Homer. Dryden. Syn. -- Abudance; plenty; richness; exuberance.
• COPIOUSLY
  In a copious manner.
• CLOUDLESS
  Without a cloud; clear; bright. A cloudless winter sky. Bankroft. -- Cloud"less*ly, adv. -- Cloud"less*ness, n.
• SUDDEN
  soudain, L. subitaneus, fr. subitus sudden, that has come unexpectedly, p.p. of subire to come on, to steal upon; sub under, 1. Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation;
• CLOUDILY
  In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely. Dryden.
• 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
• PRECIPITATION
  The act or process from a solution. (more info) 1. The act of precipitating, or the state of being precipitated, or thrown headlong. In peril of precipitation From off rock Tarpeian. Shak. 2. A falling, flowing, or rushing downward with violence
• UNCLOUD
  To free from clouds; to unvail; to clear from obscurity, gloom, sorrow, or the like. Beau. & Fl.
• DISCLOUD
  To clear from clouds. Fuller.
• UNWHOLE
  Not whole; unsound.
• INTERCLOUD
  To cloud. Daniel.
• BECLOUD
  To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud. If thou becloud the sunshine of thine eye. Quarles.
• ENCLOUD
  To envelop in clouds; to cloud. Spenser.