encloud

English

Alternative forms

• incloud

Etymology

From en- +‎ cloud.

Verb

encloud (third-person singular simple present enclouds, present participle enclouding, simple past and past participle enclouded)

1. (ambitransitive) To cloud up.
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Virgil's Gnat”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     The heavens on every side enclouded be:
     Black storms and fogs are blowen up from far

References

• “encloud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• clouden