Word Meanings - INCLOUD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To envelop as in clouds; to darken; to obscure. Milton.
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- DARKEN
Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton. - OBSCURENESS
Obscurity. Bp. Hall. - OBSCURER
One who, or that which, obscures. - DARKENING
Twilight; gloaming. Wright. - ENVELOPMENT
1. The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides. 2. That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop. - OBSCUREMENT
The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured; obscuration. Pomfret. - DARKENER
One who, or that which, darkens. - OBSCURE
obscurus, orig., covered; ob- + a root probably meaning, to cover; cf. L. scutum shield, Skr. sku to cover: cf.F. obscur. 1. Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim. His lamp shall be put out - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - ENVELOPE; ENVELOP
The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma. (more info) 1. That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - ENVELOP
To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship. Nocturnal shades this world envelop. J. Philips. (more info) - OBSCURELY
In an obscure manner. Milton. - SUBOBSCURELY
Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne. - CLARE-OBSCURE
See CHIAROSCURO - HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.