Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
cirrose .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Cirrose.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Tufted; -- said of certain feathers of birds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany, zoology Pertaining to
cirri ; havingfilaments ,fibrous . - adjective Pertaining to
cirrus clouds.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sir John Herschel compared it to a surface studded over with flocks of wool, or to the breaking up of a mackerel sky when the clouds of which it consists begin to assume a cirrous appearance.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
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Farquharson on the connection of cirrous clouds with the Aurora, 197; its altitude, 199.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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This connection of the polar light with the most delicate cirrous clouds deserves special attention, because it shows that the electro-magnetic evolution of light is a part of a meteorological process.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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All remarked "that the Aurora flashed forth in the most vivid beams when masses of cirrous strata were hovering in the upper regions of the air, and when these were so thin that their presence could only be recognized by the formation of a halo round the moon."
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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