cloudcast

English

Etymology

cloud +‎ cast

Adjective

cloudcast

  1. (of the sky) Overcast.
    • 1875, Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth, Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873, Under Command of Sir T. D. Forsyth: With Historical and Geographical Information Regarding the Possessions of the Ameer of Yarkund, page 518:
      [Weather:] Still, cloudcast sky.
    • 1889, The Scottish Art Review, page 64:
      Fit ending to the cloudcast day. But ah! that was a golden time I spent beneath yon giant lime (And e'en to-day as I look back Through the dark haze of grief and pain That hangs o'er true devotion's track, I'd fain live o'er it all again, For  […])
    • 1918, The Vineyard, page 387:
      […] the sun's warm rays / Shine out to welcome. Yet- / 'Neath cloudcast skies, "the weeping rain," / Or evening's darkest shade, / You still shine on with unclosed eye, / Undaunted, Undismayed!
    • 1993, Michael Hulse, David Kennedy, David Morley, The New Poetry:
      […] one leafless / Cloudcast morning he appeared to me, / Taking time off from his rind-research / To spread his chestnut throat and sing / Outside my window.
    • 1999, Madan Gopal Chitkara, Encyclopaedia of Buddhism: A World Faith: Bodhisattva and Selflessness V. 14, →ISBN:
      One never gets angry at a cloudcast sky, because to be overcast is not the true nature of the sky. It is other factors that make it overcast. Similarly, anger is not natural to sattvas; it is the consequence of some other causes.
    • 2007 September 1, Philip Wesley Comfort, Spirit Journey: Second Edition, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 105:
      ... as when a cloudcast day turns gloriously sudden at sunset's end.
  2. (of shadows) Cast by clouds.
    • 1851, Francis May, Empyrean: And Other Poems, page 18:
      ... frowns come and go / Like cloudcast shadows on the frozen snow.
    • 2013 September 3, Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell, Bloodhoney, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
      Micah watched the cloudcast shadows skitting over the snowfields before him – then screwed his face up in surprise when some of them seemed to come to a halt. He looked up. The clouds were still moving , and when he looked back at the plains he realized that the motionless grey shapes were not shadows at all.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Nolan Dannels, March of the Unreal, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 32:
      […] die in the shadows cloudcast / Darken the night  […]
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