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Definition of Clouding up

1. Noun. The process whereby water particles become visible in the sky.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clouding Up

Literary usage of Clouding up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1873)
"At 4.30 pm it. commenced clouding up again. Tea- perature falling, but barometer rising. A heavy rain commenced at 5 p. ui., the observer u the summit ..."

2. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1903)
"... and after that the captain of the watch called for another song; but it was clouding up now, and the bar'l stuck right thar in the same place, ..."

3. Fur Seal Arbitration: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened by Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1895)
"H. 12; K. 4; Courses, WNW; Noon, Pleasant breeze clouding up in SW. H. 2; K. 4; PM Pleasant breeze and cloudy. H. 4; K. 5; 4, Tacked to Southward. ..."

4. Forty-four Years of the Life of a Hunter: Being Reminiscences of Meshach by Meshach Browning, Edward Stabler (1859)
"Finding it clouding up, and threatening rain, I went to work in great haste to construct a shelter for our provision; and we worked with all our energy, ..."

5. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"... and after that the captain of the watch called for another song; but it was clouding up, now, and the bar'l stuck right thar in the same place, ..."

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