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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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