Definition of "cirrhus" []

• Alternative form of cirrus. (noun)

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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."
• "The zenith was a deep blue, darkening opposite the setting sun, and paling over it into a peach colour, and that again near the horizon passing into a glowing orange-red, crossed by coppery streaks of cirrhus."
• "Upon a summer's day the brilliant cloud-banks, termed cirrhus, indicate that the air at that elevation and temperature is saturated with moisture; these clouds are formed each day from vapor drawn from the earth."