cirrhus
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of cirrhus
< New Latin, a pseudo-Greek form of Latin cirrus cirrus
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The brigade was now upon the Front Royal and Winchester pike, moving in the foot and wheel prints of the advance, and under and through an extended cirrhus cloud of dirty saffron.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
The gold on Skiddaw was passing into rose; and over the greenish blue of the lower sky, webs of crimson cirrhus spun themselves.
From The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Ark is also the name of a mare's-tail cloud, or cirrhus, when it forms a streak across the sky.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Just then the moon getting clear of some cirrhus clouds, and shining brighter than ever, lights up an object hitherto unnoticed by him, but one he recognises as an old acquaintance.
From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.
Gasping for a breath of cooler air, we watched the sun go down, but there was no sign of wind, no promise of movement in the faint, vapoury cirrhus that attended his setting.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.
The light fleecy cirrhi were regarded as mermaids, or as swans, or as maidens with swan's plumage.
From Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by Fiske, John
A few light cirrhi floated high in the atmosphere; but these, even when crossing the moon’s disk, cast no perceptible shadow.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
The fish are a Cyprinus and a Barbus, or Oreinus with small scales, thick leathery mouth, and cirrhi; a Loach of largish size, flat head, reddish, with conspicuous brownish mottlings, and a Silurus.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William
The cloud swept onward, like a mass of cirrhi, in those shadows shrouded.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
The middle or triangular lobe is of the same color as the lateral lobes, but pencilled with longitudinal lines of crimson, flushed with orange, and with the terminal cirrhi of a clear magenta.
From Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 by Various
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