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Gentleman's Magazine 1816 part 1 p.132
the favour to make remarks, or to take sketches of the
clouds, &c. can make use of the following terms:
CURL-CLOUD. The old name in Latin by Mr. Howard, is Cirrus,
a curl; Cirrulus and curl beling the diminutive.
STACKEN-CLOUD, or Cumulus, from the verb to stack, to heap
up.
FALL-CLOUD, or Stratus; being the falling, or subsidence of
watery particles in the evening.
SONDER-CLOUD, or Cirrocumulus, is a sundered cloud, made up
of separated orbs. The characteristick of this cloud being
the gathering together into a bed, of little clouds, yet so
far assunder as not to touch.
WANE-CLOUD, or Cirrostratus; from the waning or subsiding
state of this cloud in all its forms.
TWAIN-CLOUD, or Cumulostratus; made often by the twinning or
uniting of two clouds together.
RAIN-CLOUD, or Nimbus, speaks for itself. So we can have
Storm-cloud, Thunder-cloud, &c.
MOON-RING, or Halo; a ring including an area around the
Moon.
SUN-RING, the same about the Sun, Solar Halo.
MOON-BURR, a fleecy or confused burr about the Moon. The old
name is Corona. So we have Sunburr, Double Moon-ring,
Threefold Moon-ring, coloured Sun-ring, &c.
MOCK-SUN, or Parahelion.
MOCK-MOON, or Paraselene.
MOON-CROWN: this may answer to the Halo Discoides of my
Nomenclature.
RAINBOW, retains its old name instead of Iris.
RAIN-RAY, the Rabdi divergenses of my Name-list.
CONE-RAY, the Rabdus pyramidalis of the same.
SHOOT-FLAME, or shooting, or falling star, instead of
meteor. Thus we can have White-tailed, Shoot-flame, &c.
instead of Caudate Meteor.
WISP-FLAME, or Ignis fatuus.
POLE-STREAMER, or Northern-light. The Aurora being Australis
as well as Borealis.
BLOOMEN-FLAME, the electric flame seen about flowers,
particularly the evening primrose, described in my Ros. Atm.
Phaen. &c.
As I intend to publish a more complete Nomenclature for
Meteorological Science in the course of a short time, I have
merely made this specimen, intended to be inserted in some
of the Periodical Journals.
For explanation of the Phaenomena for those who are
unacquainted with them, I refer to my "Researches about
Atmospheric Phaenomena;" in which I have given Plates
explanatory of the clouds, in many of their various forms.
Any information on meteorologica subjects with which my
friends will honour men will be thankfully received, as I am
collecting materials for future publication.
T. FORSTER.
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