Etymology From Middle English cloudeful, equivalent to cloud + -ful.
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Abounding with clouds, clouded, cloudy.
From the waterless land and flora, in the thundery landscape, the drying pitch of dayshine, the shine that was parching […] has actually there contracted suddenly vast masses of thunder clouds, into the thick thunder rainfall, from the cloudful sky.1888, Thomas Wright Hall, Correlation Theory of Chemical Action and Affinity, page 70:
Or does some brighter spirit, un forlorn, Send you, my little sister of the wood, To say to some one on a cloudful morn, "Life lives through death, my brother, all is good ?"1915, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar:
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Cities at night, and cloudful skies, I've wanted; […]1923, Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1923:
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Broadly Dark, dimmed; troubled, turbid.
His words, accordingly, proceeding from a mind "in a dark, hot, cloudful state," were "metallic, meteoric, ball-like."1847, New Quarterly Review; Or, Home, Foreign and Colonial Journal:
cloudful
noun
Etymology From cloud + -ful.
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The amount contained in a cloud.
One might suppose himself angling in Lake Avernus, with a cloudful of hobgoblins on each side of him!1848, Thomas Tod Stoddart, Angling Reminiscences, page 52:
A shuffling from the pit is drowned by the tumult of the top gallery, where the crowd whoops and whistles and stamps like a cloudful of angels on a spree.2014, John Dickson Carr, Most Secret: