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VAPOROUSLY.
3. Filled with, thick or dim with, vapour; foggy,
misty.
XS93 Shaks. Lucr, 771 O hatefull, vaporous, and foggy
night,..Musterthy mists to meete the Easterne light. 1603
Holland Plutarch's Mor. 998 Considering that mists, fogs
and clouds are no congealations, but onely gatherings and
thickenings of a moist and vapourous aire. 1620 Venner
Wia Recta. Introd. 5 There the aire is..seldome infected
with vaporous blasts. 1665 PhiL Trans. I. 67 Through the
Gross and Vaporous Air near the Earth. 1709 T. Robinson
Nat. Hist. Westmoreld. ii. 16 The magnetick Attraction of
this i^iherial Spirit of Cold, which governs the humid and
vaporous Atmosphere. 1818 Shelley Euganean Hills 92
The waveless plain of Lombardy, Bounded by the vaporous
air, a 1B64 Hawthorne Mother Rigby's Pipe 1, The small
cottage became all vaporous. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuv. iv.
124 The outline of the cone was plain against the illuminated
vaporous atmosphere.
fig. 1600 \V. Watson Decacordon (1602) 334 [The Jesuits!
religious pietie in shew, is but arainebow cloude, of atheall
policie in action, drawne vp in vaporous dewes of cold congealed
deuotions. 41653 J. Smith Sel. Disc. ix. ii. (:82i)
414 To rise above that vaporous sphere of sensual and
earthly pleasures, which darken the mind.
b. Covered or obscured with vapour.
a 1687 Petty Pol Arith. \. (i6po) 12 Holland is a Level
Country, ..and by_ its being moist and vaporous, there is
always wind stirring over it. x8x8 Keats Endym. ir. 19
Wide sea, . . Many old rotten -timber 'd boats there be Upon
thy vaporous bosom ! x86o Tyndall Glac. i. xyi. 115 The
lower cloud field— itself an empire of vaporous hills. 1885-
94 R. Bridges Eros