overcast
overcast
adj.
Cloudy (of the sky): P. συννέφελος, Ar. περινέφελος.
Met., of looks: P. and V. σκυθρωπός, V. σῠνωφρυωμένος, στυγνός.
adj.
Cloudy (of the sky): P. συννέφελος, Ar. περινέφελος.
Met., of looks: P. and V. σκυθρωπός, V. σῠνωφρυωμένος, στυγνός.
OVERCAST
To cloud over: the sky is overcast caelum nubibus obducitur or obtegitur; nubilatur; or nubilare coepit. Anybody’s brow is overcast (figuratively) alicujus oculi tristitiae quoddam nubilum ducunt (Quint. 11 3 75).
To coat with anything Vid: COAT.
To cloud over: the sky is overcast caelum nubibus obducitur or obtegitur; nubilatur; or nubilare coepit. Anybody’s brow is overcast (figuratively) alicujus oculi tristitiae quoddam nubilum ducunt (Quint. 11 3 75).
To coat with anything Vid: COAT.
adj.
Of the sky etc. nubilus: obnubilus.
Of the countenance: an overcast brow frons contracta (wrinkled with care vexation etc.): frons nubila (Mart. 2 11); vultus tristis.
Of the sky etc. nubilus: obnubilus.
Of the countenance: an overcast brow frons contracta (wrinkled with care vexation etc.): frons nubila (Mart. 2 11); vultus tristis.
overcast (part. adj.): nūbĭlus: if the sky should become o., si fiat coelum n., Plin. 16, 26, 46. The neut. is used subs.: e. g. when the sky is o., nubilo, id. 11, 24, 28: Suet. Impers. nubilat, the sky becomes o.: Varr. R. R. 1, 13 (si n. coeperit). Phr.: the sky was o., coelum nubibus obscuratum, Sall. Jug. 38: the clouds gather from all sides and the sky is o., nubes undique adductae obruere tenebris diem, Petr. 114: cf. eripiunt subito nubes coelumque diemque, Virg. Aen. 1, 88: more simply, coelum nubibus tegitur, obducitur (Kr.).