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▪ I. clouding, vbl. n.|ˈklaʊdɪŋ|
[f. cloud v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb cloud.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 269 History..tainted with cloudings of Truth. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 128 For all thy frownings and thy cloudings. 1707Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) II. 20 More expedient for y⊇ clouding than clearing of the Scriptures.
2. concr.
a. A cloudy marking.
b. A cloudy streak or part in a clear substance. (Mostly in pl.)
1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps iv. §40. 131 Variable cloudings in the most vivid colour. 1870― Lect. Art vi. 155 The cloudings of the tortoise-shell. 1883Century Mag. Sept. 719/1 Being a mountain streamlet, it bears along..rootlets, scales of mica, cloudings of earthy substance, etc.
▪ II. clouding, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That clouds; that is becoming clouded or dim.
1870Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 352 The old strength of sight and of flight had passed from weary wing and clouding eye. |