Chapter Cloister to Cœliac passion of C by Soule's Synonymes

Cloud, v. a.

1. Overspread, overcast, cover with clouds, becloud

2. Darken, obscure, dim, begloom, shade, shadow.

3. Variegate (with dark veins or spots).

Cloudberry, n. Knotberry, mountain-bramble (Rubus chamæmorus).

Cloud-built, a.

1. Cloud-piled, cloud-formed, made of clouds.

2. Illusive, illusory, unstable, fanciful, imaginary, chimerical.

Cloud-compeller, n. Jupiter, Jove.

Cloudy, a.

1. Clouded, murky, lowering, lurid, overcast.

2. Obscure, dark, dim, confused.

3. Gloomy, dismal, depressing, sullen.

4. Varied with dark spots, mottled.

5. Blurred, dimmed, lustreless, muddy.

Clown, n.

1. Rustic, peasant, swain, ploughman, countryman, clodhopper, clod-breaker, husbandman, hind, churl.

2. Bumpkin, lout, boor, churl, fellow, ill-bred and uncouth man.

3. Dolt, blockhead, clodpoll, clodpate, thickhead, dunderhead, numskull. See dunce.

4. Buffoon, fool, harlequin, jester, droll, punch, zany, scaramouch, merry-andrew, jack-pudding, pickle- herring, mime, pantaloon, jack-a-dandy, wearer of the motley, farceur, grimacier.