cloudlet
(ˈklaʊdlɪt)
[f. cloud n. + -let, dim. suffix.]
A little cloud.
| 1788 Coleridge First Advent of Love 2 Eve's first star thro' fleecy cloudlet peeping. 1850 Tennyson In Mem. Conclus. xxiv, A shade falls on us like the dark From little cloudlets on the grass. 1872 Proctor Ess. Astron. ii. 20 Multitudes of star-cloudlets scattered among the myriads of minute stars which produce the milky light of the Magellanic Clouds. 1885 Times 10 Apr. 5/5 The war cloudlet vanished as quickly as it had risen. |