Word Meanings - STORMFINCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The storm petrel.

Related words: (words related to STORMFINCH)

• STORMING
  from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.
• STORM
  A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like. Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging,
• STORMGLASS
  A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
• STORMINESS
  The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
• STORMILY
  In a stormy manner.
• STORM-BEAT
  Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser.
• STORMWIND
  A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow.
• STORMFINCH
  The storm petrel.
• STORMLESS
  Without storms. Tennyson.
• STORMCOCK
  The missel thrush. The fieldfare. The green woodpecker.
• STORMY
  1. Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week. "Beyond the stormy Hebrides." Milton. 2. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury;
• PETREL
  Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridæ. The small petrels, or Mother Carey's chickens, belong to Oceanites, Oceanodroma, Procellaria, and several allied genera. Diving petrel, any bird of the genus
• STORMFUL
  Abounding with storms. "The stormful east." Carlyle. -- Storm"ful*ness, n.
• WINDSTORM
  A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.
• THUNDERSTORM
  A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• HAILSTORM
  A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail.
• OUTSTORM
  To exceed in storming. Insults the tempest and outstorms the skies. J. Barlow.
• SNOWSTORM
  A storm with falling snow.
• LANDSTORM
  See VARNPLIGTIGE
• BARNSTORMER
  An itinerant theatrical player who plays in barns when a theatre is lacking; hence, an inferior actor, or one who plays in the
• BESTORM
  To storm. Young.