cloudcast

Adjective

1. Overcast.
   • [Weather:] Still, cloudcast sky. - 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...
   • 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...
   • […] 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! - 1918, The Vineyard,...
2. Cast by clouds.
   • ... frowns come and go / Like cloudcast shadows on the frozen snow. - 1851, Francis May, Empyrean: And Other Poems, page 18:
   • 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...
   • […] die in the shadows cloudcast / Darken the night […] - (Can we date this quote?), Nolan Dannels, March of the Unreal, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 32: