nimbus ī, m NEB-, a rain-storm, pouring rain, thick shower: terrere animos nimbis: densus, L.: ex omni nimbos demittere caelo, O.: toto sonuerunt aethere nimbi, storm-winds, V.

—A black rain-cloud, thunder-cloud: nimbūm nigror, Pac. ap. C.: involvere diem nimbi, V.

—A cloud, nimbus, cloudy splendor (around a god): nimbo succincta, V.

—A cloud, mass, throng: Respiciunt in nimbo volitare favillam, V.: fulvae harenae, V.: glandis, L.

—Fig., a storm, tempest, calamity: hunc nimbum transisse laetor.