Word Meanings - THUNDERSTORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.
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- LIGHTNESS
The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility; - STORMING
from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress. - THUNDERING
1. Emitting thunder. Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. J. Trumbull. 2. Very great; -- often adverbially. -- Thun"der*ing*ly, adv. - 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. - 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, - THUNDERER
One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer. Pope. - THUNDERSHOWER
A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder. - STORMINESS
The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness. - STORMILY
In a stormy manner. - STORM-BEAT
Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser. - THUNDERY
Accompanied with thunder; thunderous. "Thundery weather." Pennant. - THUNDERSTONE
A belemnite. See Belemnite. (more info) 1. A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone. Fear no more the lightning flash, Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone. Shak. - THUNDERCLOUD
A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder. - THUNDERSTRIKE
1. To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle. drove before him, thunderstruck. Milton. - LIGHTNING
1. A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes - THUNDERLESS
Without thunder or noise. - STORMWIND
A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow. - THUNDERSTORM
A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder. - THUNDERFISH
A large European loach . - THUNDERHEAD
A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, - - often appearing before a thunderstorm. - SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - UPTHUNDER
To send up a noise like thunder. Coleridge. - WINDSTORM
A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.