Storm-cloud

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Dated form of storm cloud. alt-of, dated

    "’TIS midnight now—athwart the murky air, / Dank lurid meteors shoot a livid gleam; / From the dark storm-clouds flashes a fearful glare, / It shews the bending oak, the roaring stream."

Synonyms

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cirruscloudlandcocktailcumulonimbuscumulusmushroom cloud

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"The fleet was on mid ocean; land no more / was visible, naught else above, before / but sky and sea, when overhead did loom / a storm-cloud, black as heaven itself, that bore / dark night and wintry tempest in its womb, / and all the waves grew rough and shuddered with the gloom."

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