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ǁ Cumulus. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. ǁ Cumulus Pl. cumuli. [L. cumulus a heap, etc.]

1   1.  A heap, pile; an accumulation, gathering; the conical top of a heaped measure, hence the consummating mass.

2 1659.  Hammond, On Ps. xxxiii. 7. It riseth into a cumulus.

3 1867.  Manning, Eng. & Christendom, 76. My faith terminates no longer in a cumulus of probabilities gathered from the past.

4 1882.  Farrar, Early Chr., II. 213. When we read the Jewish annals of these years, we never seem to have reached the cumulus of horrors.

5   2.  Meteor. One of the simple forms of clouds, consisting of rounded masses heaped upon each other and resting on a nearly horizontal base. Frequent in the summer sky, where it often presents the appearance of snowy mountain-masses.

6 1803.  L. Howard, Modif. Clouds (1865), 2–3. It may be allowable to introduce a Methodical nomenclature, applicable … to the Modifications of Cloud.…
  Cumulus.… Convex or conical heaps, increasing upward from a horizontal base.

7 1820.  Scoresby, Acc. Arctic Reg., I. 419. The grandeur of the cumulus or thunder-cloud is never seen, unless it be on the land.

8 1846.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., I. II. III. iii. § 6. In the lower cumuli … the groups are not like balloons or bubbles, but like towers or mountains.

9   attrib.  1851.  Nichol, Archit. Heav., 48. The cumulus cloud predominates.

10 1892.  ‘Vernon Lee,’ in Contemp. Rev., LXI. 666. Over the sea the wind had built a bridge, straight, flat, stretching from headland to headland, of white cumulus marble.

11   3.  Anat. A thickened portion of the granular lining of the Graafian follicle in which the ovum is embedded; the Discus proligerus.

12 1882.  in Syd. Soc. Lex.

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