"cloudful" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1888, Thomas Wright Hall, Correlation Theory of Chemical Action and Affinity, page 70",
          "text": "From the waterless land and flora, in the thundery landscape, the drying pitch of dayshine, the shine that was parching […] has actually there contracted suddenly vast masses of thunder clouds, into the thick thunder rainfall, from the cloudful sky.",
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        {
          "ref": "1915, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar",
          "text": "Or does some brighter spirit, un forlorn,\nSend you, my little sister of the wood,\nTo say to some one on a cloudful morn,\n\"Life lives through death, my brother, all is good ?\"",
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          "ref": "1923, Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1923",
          "text": "Cities at night, and cloudful skies, I've wanted; […]",
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        "Abounding with clouds, clouded, cloudy."
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          "ref": "1847, New Quarterly Review; Or, Home, Foreign and Colonial Journal",
          "text": "His words, accordingly, proceeding from a mind \"in a dark, hot, cloudful state,\" were \"metallic, meteoric, ball-like.\"",
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        "Dark, dimmed; troubled, turbid."
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        "(by extension) Dark, dimmed; troubled, turbid."
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  "etymology_text": "From cloud + -ful.",
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          "text": "One might suppose himself angling in Lake Avernus, with a cloudful of hobgoblins on each side of him!",
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          "text": "A shuffling from the pit is drowned by the tumult of the top gallery, where the crowd whoops and whistles and stamps like a cloudful of angels on a spree.",
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        "The amount contained in a cloud."
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