Tempest /(?)/
Tem·pest
Tempest
n.
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An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
[We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed.
- Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
- A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4. [Archaic]
Tempest
v. t.
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To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.]
Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean.
Tempest
v. i.
- To storm. [Obs.]