| 单词 | mare's tail cloud |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmare's tail cloud 2. A long straight streak of cirrus cloud, often believed to herald stormy weather. Usually in plural except in attributive use, as mare's tail cirrus, mare's tail cloud. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > cirrus > specific mare's tail1775 hen scrattin1824 hen scrat1828 goat's hair1844 1581 W. Bourne Almanacke & Prognostication sig. F3 If that the skie aloft bee full of long streames like vnto Horses and Mares tayles, that is a token of great Southerly windes to followe.] 1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 68 408 A.M. sky mare's tails. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxix. 246 It resembled the mackerel fleeces and mare's tails of our summer skies at home. 1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. 354 A dense mass of mare's-tail cirrus. 1886 T. H. Huxley in 19th Cent. Feb. 202 The wildest streaks of marestail clouds in the sky. 1895 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 531 It is the cloud known to seamen..as ‘goats' hair’ or ‘mares' tails’. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin xi. 192 Occasional wisps of cloud..were being flung off into space..in low-lying, streaky fragments like spun silk. They were mares'-tails. 1943 National Geographic Mag. Dec. 653 (caption) Cirro-stratus resembles a thin white veil. Cirrus is the ‘mare's tail’ type. 1986 I. Wedde Symmes Hole (1988) 194 There was a different fan of breeze beginning to come off the sea and some high mares-tail was thickening to a haze out toward the horizon. 1993 Outdoor Canada Sept. (Suppl.) 7/1 Mackerel skies and mare's-tails mean your fishing rarely fails... Mare's-tails are cirrus clouds about 50,000 feet above the ground. < as lemmas |
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