stormn.
/stɔːm/, U.S. /stɔrm/ I. The atmospheric disturbance, and related uses.figurative.1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 53 Battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayer.
1. in figurative context.c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care ix. 58 Hwæt is ðonne ðæt rice & se ealdordom buton ðæs modes storm, se symle bið cnyssende ðæt scip ðære heortan?1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. iv. 42 Why whats the matter? That you haue such a Februarie face, So full of frost, of storme, and clowdinesse. View more context for this quotation1740 C. Wesley in J. Wesley & C. Wesley Hymns & Sacred Poems i. 67 Hide me, o my Saviour, hide, Till the Storm of Life is past.1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxxiii. 52 O thou that after toil and storm Mayst seem to have reach'd a purer air. View more context for this quotation
a. A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, manifested by high winds, often accompanied by heavy falls of rain, hail, or snow, by thunder and lightning, and at sea by turbulence of the waves. Hence sometimes applied to a heavy fall of rain, hail, or snow, or to a violent outbreak of thunder and lightning, unaccompanied by strong wind.More explicitly storm of hail, †storm of lightning, storm of rain, †storm of thunder; also with the noun prefixed, as hailstorm n., rainstorm n., snowstorm n., thunder-storm n.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > stormy weather > a storm
stormc825
un-i-withereOE
tempestc1250
riggc1400
orage1477
buba1500
procellea1500
stour1827
rattler1835
c825 Vesp. Ps. xlix. 3 Fyr in gesihðe his beorneð & in ymbhwyrfte his storm strong.
c825 Vesp. Ps. liv. 9 Ic bad hine se mec halne dyde from lytelmodum & storme.
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xvi. 3 To dæg [bið] stearm, fagas forðon unrotlic heofon.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 274 Seo lyft ðe we ymbe sprecað astihð up fornean oð þone monan & abyrð ealle wolcna stormas.
a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1070 Þa com an mycel storm & to dræfede ealle þa scipe þær þa gersumes wæron inne.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 143 Ech eorþe scal hwakien on his ecsene alse deoð þe see in storme.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 161 Storemes falleð in þe sæ, and to-worpeð hit.
a1225 Juliana 76 As ha weren in wettre com a steorm [v.r. strom] & draf ham to londe.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 276 Qui post tempestatem tranquillum facit..þet is iblescet beo þu lauerd. þe makest stille efter storm.
c1330 (?c1300) Reinbrun (Auch.) in J. Zupitza Guy of Warwick (1891) 634 Gret strom hem wex vpon.
c1330 (?c1300) Reinbrun (Auch.) in J. Zupitza Guy of Warwick (1891) 634 Swiche a strom hem cam upon, Þat sore hem gonne drede.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1122 Ther ran a rombul in a swough As thogh a storm sholde bresten euery bough.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 477/2 Storm, wedyr, nimbus, procella, altanus. Storm, yn the see, turbo.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7631 The stourme wex still.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 32 His steid aganis the storme staluartlie straid.
1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia i. 82 The windie storme Doth topside-turuey tosse thee as thou flotest.
1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia ii. 93 Enemies..Beat backe like flyes before a storme of hayle.
1597 J. Donne Storm in Poems 32 And what at first was call'd a gust, the same Hath now a stormes, anon a tempests name.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 19 Here's..another Storme brewing, I heare it sing ith' winde. View more context for this quotation
1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 280 A storme of thunder and rayne came.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. x. 47 A storme is knowne..not to bee much lesse than a tempest, that will blow downe houses, and trees vp by the roots.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 126 That night we..were entertained by..a sudden storm of rain, thunder, and lightning.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 19 The Wind setting in at South West, blew a Storm.
1735 S. Johnson tr. J. Lobo Voy. Abyssinia 2 We had here our Rigging somewhat damag'd by a Storm of Lightning.
1788 J. Wesley Jrnl. 6 Oct. (1827) II. 427 When I came into the town, it blew a storm... But it fell as suddenly as it rose.
1788 J. Wesley Jrnl. 25 Nov. Though it blew a storm, and was piercing cold, we were sufficiently crowded at Dover.
1806 W. Scott Let. 11 Aug. (1932) I. 314 The most dreadful storm of thunder and lightning I ever witnessed.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 78 Like the mystic fire on a mast-head, Prophet of storm.
1861 C. Dickens Let. 7 Nov. (1997) IX. 499 The storm was most magnificent at Dover.
1895 Law Times Rep. 73 156/2 Two vessels..drifted through the violence of a storm on to the toe of a breakwater.
b. Used spec. as the distinctive appellation of a particular degree of violence in wind. In modern Meteorology: An atmospheric disturbance which in the Beaufort scale is classed as intermediate between a whole gale and a hurricane, having a wind-force estimated at 10–11 and a limit of velocity at from 56–75 miles per hour.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > strong or violent wind > of particular degree of violence
storm1801
storm wind1839
1801 J. Capper Observ. Winds & Monsoons Pref. p. xxiii The tempest..is..the same as a hurricane, or whirlwind: I shall therefore use these words synonimously, and place them in the first order, or degree of violent winds. The storm, or what the English seamen call a hard gale, is likewise, I believe, nearly the same; I shall, therefore, make use of the former for the land, and the latter for the sea term, and reckon these in the second class.
1858 Fitzroy Meteorol. Papers iii. 94/1 [Beaufort Scale.] 11 Storm.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at Storms That is a storm which reduces a ship to her storm stay-sails, or to her bare poles.
c. spec. A snowstorm. Also, a quantity of fallen snow. Scottish.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > a fall of snow > a quantity of fallen snow
storm1754
1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xviii. 67 There fell a very great Storm (as they call it) for by the Word Storm they only mean Snow.
1787 J. Beattie Scoticisms 119 They turned him out,..though there was a storm of snow lying on the ground.
1822 Lauder's Chronol. Notes 8 A great storm of snow had fallen.
d. A period of hard weather with frost and snow. Scottish and North American.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > freezing or frosty weather > a period of
stinger1852
storm1880
1880 J. Colquhoun Moor & Loch (ed. 5) I. 239 Even the sea-worm having failed at the end of that long continued storm.
1887 I. Randall Lady's Ranche Life Montana 24 This ‘storm’, as they call the spell of cold weather, lasted about 10 days.
e. magnetic storm: see magnetic adj. and n. Compounds.
f. In plural elliptical for storm windows. North American.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > other types of window
loop1393
shot-windowc1405
gable window1428
batement light1445
church window1458
shot1513
casement1538
dream-hole1559
luket1564
draw window1567
loop-window1574
loophole1591
tower-windowc1593
thorough lights1600
squinch1602
turret window1603
slit1607
close-shuts1615
gutter window1620
street lighta1625
balcony-window1635
clere-story window1679
slip1730
air-loop1758
Venetian1766
Venetian window1775
sidelight1779
lancet window1781
French casement1804
double window1819
couplet1844
spire-light1846
lancet1848
tower-light1848
triplet1849
bar-window1857
pair-light1868
nook window1878
coupled windows1881
three-light1908–9
north-light1919
storm window1933
borrowed light1934
Thermopane1941
storms1952
1952 Home Building in Canada Oct.–Nov. 22/2 If you are wondering which windows and when to protect with storms, the answer is simple—all of them, from October to April.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 45 (advt.) Complete with drapes, aluminum, storms and screens.
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 1 Aug. 3/2 Alwin J. Dovale, installer of storms and screens.
1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. ii. 7/1 Maybe next year I can afford real storms with the money I'll save on utility bills.
g. Proverbial phrases. a storm in a teacup (and earlier phrases: see quots.): a great commotion in a small community or about a trifling matter. [Probably after Latin fluctus excitare in simpulo (Cicero).]
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1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. E No storme so sharp to rent the little Reede.
1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars iii. lv. 66 Nere feare the storme before thou feele the shower.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xiv. 415 At last he is as welcome as a storm.
1678 Dk. Ormond Let. Earl Arlington 28 Dec. in Hist. MSS. Comm., Ormonde MSS. IV. 292 Our skirmish seems to be come to a period, and compared with the great things now on foot, is but a storm in a cream bowl.
1770 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 560 He [has]..Been in a storm; this is a sea-phrase for being less than dead-drunk.
1830 Gentleman's Mag. C. i. 49/2 Each campaign, compared with those of Europe, has been only, in Lord Thurlow's phrase, a storm in a wash-hand basin.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xix She has raised a storm in a tea-cup by her..unwarranted assault.
1878 Froude Table-talk Shirley 159 I have got into Cæsar, and think no more of this storm in a slop-basin.
2. transferred. A heavy discharge or downfall (of missiles, blows).
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [noun] > throwing missiles > simultaneous
stormOE
volley1598
the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow > a rain or load of blows
ladec897
showerOE
stormOE
OE Beowulf 3117 Þonne stræla storm strengum gebæded scoc ofer scildweall.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. A4 Thicke stormes of bullets ran like winters haile.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xi. xxxiv. 202 Adrastus first..through the falling storme did vpward clime Of stones, dartes, arrowes, fire, pitch and lime.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 172 The Sulphurous Hail Shot after us in storm . View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 546 This day will pour down..no drizling showr, But ratling storm of Arrows barbd with fire. View more context for this quotation
1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Persians in tr. Æschylus Tragedies 486 Whilst broken rocks..And storms of arrows crush'd them.
1817 W. Scott Harold vi. xv. 194 Then rose His mace, and with a storm of blows The mortal and the Demon close.
1849 W. S. Mayo Kaloolah (1850) ii. 24 She [the frigate] sent forth a storm of shot.
3. figurative and in figurative context.in extended use.1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion I. ii. viii Did you never have the misfortune..to know one of the benefactors of the human race, in the very ‘storm and pressure period’ of his indiscreet enthusiasm?1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. x. xlvi. 411 Written during the years a.d. 57 and a.d. 58, a period pre-eminently of storm and stress in the Apostle's life.1900 G. C. Brodrick Mem. & Impr. 227 I never knew John Bright personally until his time of storm and stress was over.
a. A violent disturbance of affairs whether civil, political, social or domestic; commotion, sedition, tumult. More definitely storm of rebellion, storm of state, storm of strife, storm of war, etc. Frequently in to weather the storm.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > a disturbance or riot
stormOE
disturbance1297
disturblancec1330
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disturbation1529
ruffle1534
upstir1549
tumult1560
embroilment1609
hubbuba1625
embroil1636
ruction1809
uproaring1827
OE Andreas (1932) 1236 Storm upp aras æfter ceasterhofum, cirm unlytel hæðnes heriges.
c1315 Shoreham Poems vii. 716 For þou [sc. the serpent] areredst þerne storm And alle þys hete, Acorsed be þou bestes by-syde.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 940 Ryȝt so holy chyrche after þat starme Shalle haue þe maystre atte lest.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 1 Subgette and thral vnto the stormes of fortune.
1614 F. Bacon Charge touching Duels 9 It may cause suddaine stormes in Court, to the disturbance of his Maiestie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 349 I will stirre vp in England some black Storme, Shall blowe ten thousand Soules to Heauen, or Hell. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Caryll Sir Salomon iv. 66 My designs of Revenge are vain, and unjust. I must pull down my Sailes to weather out this storme.
1713 A. Pope Prol. to Cato in Guardian No. 33. A brave Man struggling in the Storms of Fate.
1766 Ld. Kames Remarkable Decisions Court of Session 1730–52 33 Newlands dreading the storm, had retired out of the country.
1802 G. Canning Song Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm! [i.e. Pitt.]
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 623 They were..thrown into the shade by two younger Whigs,..who weathered together the fiercest storms of faction.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xiv. 131 Pa told me, only yesterday morning,..that he couldn't weather the storm.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 207 A violent storm broke forth. Daly was ordered to attend at the bar.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. ix. 361 A monk of the house, who..contrived to weather all storms, and died in possession of his Abbey.
1924 Nation & Athenæum 26 Jan. 603/1 His plight was serious; but he weathered the storm.
1934 F. W. Crofts 12.30 from Croydon viii. 95 He had come to an arrangement with his uncle whereby he hoped to weather the storm.
b. A tumultuous rush (of sound, tears, etc.); a vehement utterance (of words); a violent outburst (of censure, ridicule, etc.); a passionate manifestation of feeling.
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the mind > emotion > passion > [noun] > sudden outburst or access of passion
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storm1602
estuation1605
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accession?1608
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overboiling1767
explosion1769
outflaming1836
passion fit1842
outfly1877
Vesuvius1886
outflame1889
the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [noun] > angry speech
misword?c1225
hard words1583
storm1602
bark1663
warmth1710
the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken > impassioned
wildfirea1400
storm1602
mouth-grenado1647
seraphics1709
mouth-grenade1714
ecstatics1821
stem-winder1875
the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > instance of
outbreakinga1387
breaking-out1552
outbreak1562
eruption1598
storm1602
out-breach1609
fulmination1623
outflying1641
outburst1657
float1763
overboiling1767
irruption1811
gush1821
outflash1831
outflush1834
shooting forth1837
outbursting1838
blow-off1842
outblaze1843
upburst1843
upthrow1855
upbreak1856
spurt1859
outlash1868
spitfire1886
Brock's benefit1948
1602 tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido iv. viii. sig. M2v That..afterward dost mooue A thousand stormes of sighes, of teares, of plaintes.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. ⁋1 For, was there euer any thing proiected, that sauoured any way of newnesse..but the same endured many a storme of gaine-saying, or opposition?
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) ix. 435 With stormes of whistlings [Gk. πολλῇ ῥοίζω] then, his flocks he draue Vp to the mountaines.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires i. 6 The Prose is Fustian, and the Numbers lame. All Noise, and empty Pomp, a storm of words.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 407. ¶4 How much more they would have been alarmed, had they heard him actually throwing out such a Storm of Eloquence?
1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 491 The strings are swept with such a pow'r, so loud, The storm of music shakes th' astonish'd crowd.
1832 S. Warren Passages from Diary of Late Physician II. iii. 124 He concluded amid a storm of applause.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 117 At which the storm Of galloping hoofs bare on the ridge of spears And riders front to front.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 484 He..faced the storm of invective which burst upon him from bar, bench, and witness box, with the insolence of despair.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. xxviii. 262 Octavia disburdened the long-pent agony of repression in..a storm of weeping.
c. Commotion or unrest (of mind or soul); a tumultuous assemblage (of thoughts, feelings).
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [noun]
stirringc888
maleasea1300
uneasea1300
diseasec1330
perturbationa1382
unrestfulnessc1384
disturbancea1387
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perturbancec1425
unquietnessc1460
inquietation1461
conturbationc1470
unheart's-ease1470
distroubling1487
wanease15..
inquietness?1504
unrufe1508
sturt1513
pertroublancea1522
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turmoiling1550
unquiet1551
agitation?1555
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float1579
disquiet1581
brangling1584
diseasefulnessa1586
restlessness1597
hurry1600
disturbancy1603
disquietment1606
disordera1616
laruma1616
uneasinessa1616
diseasementa1617
discomposture1622
discomposition1624
whirr1628
discomposednessa1631
discomposure1632
pother1638
incomposedness1653
inquietude1658
uneasefulness1661
toss1666
disquietednessa1680
intranquillitya1699
disquietude1709
bosom-broil1742
discomfort1779
rufflement1806
feeze1825
uncomfortableness1828
discomforture1832
astasia1839
dysphoria1842
purr1842
peacelessness1852
palaver1899
perturbment1901
heebie-jeebies1923
wahala1966
agita1979
1569 T. Underdowne tr. Heliodorus Æthiop. Hist. vii. 89 A whole storme of thoughtes in a manner ouerwhelmed her.
1729 G. Adams tr. Sophocles Antigone iii. v, in tr. Sophocles Trag. II. 51 Still the same Violence of the Storms of her Soul torments her.
1730 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons 19 These, and a thousand mixt emotions more,..vex the mind With endless storm.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 68 Sir Aylmer reddening from the storm within, Then broke all bonds of courtesy, and crying ‘Boy’ [etc.].
1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. xii. 170 She..covered up her head in the clothes as before, but with a storm of other feelings.
d. storm and stress [German Sturm und Drang] : used to designate the movement in German literature about 1770–82, due to a school of young writers characterized by extravagance in the representation of violent passion, and by energetic repudiation of the ‘rules’ of the French critics. See also Sturm und Drang n.Sturm und Drang, the title of a play by F. M. Klinger (1776), was seized upon by the historians of literature as aptly expressing the spirit of the school to which the author belonged.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > specific schools of writers > characteristic quality of
cockneyism1818
Alexandrianism1822
Cockneydom1823
storm and stress1839
Sturm und Drang1857
the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun]
woodnessc1000
furyc1374
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ragea1393
violencea1393
excess1423
zeala1425
vehemence1445
extremity1509
franticnessa1529
vehemency1534
wildnessc1540
impotency1542
violent1576
distraughture1594
distraught1610
distractiona1616
distractedness?1617
entrancement1637
distractfulnessa1640
impotencea1640
transportment1639
transportednessa1656
violent1667
whirl1707
rave1765
Sturm und Drang1857
storm and stress1879
1855 G. H. Lewes Life & Wks. Goethe I. iii. i. 140 [1771] The period known as the Storm and Stress period was then about to astonish Germany, and to startle all conventions, by works such as Gerstenberg's Ugolino, Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen, Klinger's Sturm und Drang (from whence the name), and Schiller's Robbers.
1900 F. H. Stoddard Evol. Eng. Novel iv. 144 That group of men whom collectively we take to illustrate the early Storm and Stress.
e. up a storm adverbial phrase, vehemently, violently, with enthusiasm or energy. U.S. colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy
with (also in) mood and maineOE
vigour13..
with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330
with (one's) forcec1380
like anything1665
hammer and tongs1708
like stour1787
(in) double tides1788
like blazes1818
like winking1827
with a will1827
like winky1830
like all possessed1833
in a big way1840
like (or worse than) sin1840
full swing1843
like a Trojan1846
like one o'clock1847
like sixty1848
like forty1852
like wildfire1857
like old boots1865
like blue murder1867
like steam1905
like stink1929
like one thing1938
like a demon1945
up a storm1953
1953 J. Street Civil War iv. 55 The editors just r'ared back in the omnipotence of Jove and pontificated up a storm.
1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues xviii. 167 After Marietta taught me, I knitted up a storm and got real fancy. I made cable-knit sweaters for Bobby Tucker and his little boy.
1965 Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress 29 Apr. 6/1 When I ask him to go to the store for me he starts to wheeze up a storm and tells me he is a sick man.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. (Mag.) 19/3 Right now she's cooking up a storm in preparation for the rash of friends who will be stopping by on their way to Expo.
1972 TV Guide (U.S.) 15 Jan. a54/1 Aretha Franklin sings up a storm and impersonates top female vocalists.
1974 K. Millett Flying (1975) v. 518 I will console myself with material goods. I will shop up a storm.
1983 Oxf. Times 29 Apr. 3/7 Youngsters from the First Yarnton Brownies have been knitting up a storm to make a blanket for Mother Theresa in India.
4. Pathology.
a. A paroxysm, violent access (of pain or disease). Now chiefly with qualifying word, as asthmatic storm, rheumatic storm.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > bout or attack of
onfalleOE
cothec1000
bitc1175
accessc1300
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shota1400
swalma1400
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go1867
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > paroxysm
throwOE
passiona1393
paroxysma1413
storm1540
fit1557
acerbation1684
redoublement1740
redoubling1747
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > sudden pain
stitchc1000
showera1300
shutea1300
gridea1400
gripa1400
shota1400
stounda1400
lancing1470
pang1482
twitch?1510
shooting1528
storm1540
stitching1561
stub1587
twinge1608
gird1614
twang1721
tang1724
shoot1756
darting1758
writhe1789
catch1830
lightning pain1860
twitcher1877
rash1900
1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xx Another dyette there is, the whiche she ought to obserue in the tyme of labor, when the stormes and thronges begyn to come on.
1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1620) i. iii. iii. 134 He swet, and swet againe, with..excessiue swoonings. This storme and mishap endured about some two houres.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 39 All these together as phenomena of the same rheumatic storm.
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 288 The asthmatic storm flits about the lung, now here, now there.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 819 We should expect the final storm of grave symptoms [in an attack of convulsions] to be preceded by indications of gradual failure.
b. brain storm, nerve storm: see quots.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > fit of madness
widden-dreamOE
resea1300
ragec1330
lunacy1541
raving1549
fit1594
moon1607
ravening1607
lunesa1616
rapturea1616
widdrim1644
raptus1740
brain storm1890
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > attack of
nerve storm1890
1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Nerve-storms, sudden attacks or paroxysms of neuroses or functional nervous disease.
1894 G. M. Gould Illustr. Dict. Med. Brain-storm, a succession of sudden and severe phenomena, due to some cerebral disturbance.
II. [ < storm v.]
5. Military.figurative.1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. vii. 173 How I looked while these ideas were taking my spirit by storm, I cannot tell.1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars i. 27 The Franciscans..were taking the world by storm.
a. A violent assault on a fortified place.
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society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > storming
assault1297
fraista1400
expugnationc1540
storm1645
storming1661
1645 O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches (1845) I. 225 The day and hour of our storm was appointed.
1645 O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches (1845) I. 226 The General's signal unto a storm, was to be, The..discharging four pieces of cannon.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. ii. iii. sig. O3 A Fortress, whose Defendants are not Treacherous, can scarce be taken otherwise than either by Famine, or Storm.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xi. 255 We should have carried the fort by storm.
1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 548 I believe the Storm ought to take place by daylight.
1840 W. C. Burns in I. Burns Life (1870) ix. 204 He served at eight storms, and twelve general engagements.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1875) III. xii. 168 An attempt at a storm was beaten back by the defenders.
b. to take by storm: to take possession of by a sudden attack; to carry by assault.
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society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > take by storm
sturmec1275
expugn?a1475
expugnate1568
carry1579
enforce1579
to take by storm1687
rush1863
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or overwhelm > suddenly
to take by storm1687
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 72 At length they took the Town by storm.
1738 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) I. 156 The city..was taken by storm.
1870 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings 2nd Ser. 49 The rioters took Norwich by storm.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. Simple attributive.
a.
storm-blast n.
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1817 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Mariner (rev. ed.) i, in Sibylline Leaves 5 And now the Storm-blast came.
storm-burst n.
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a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 69 The storm-burst is over.
storm-drop n.
ΚΠ
1835 J. Keble Lyra Apost. xxx, in Brit. Mag. Nov. 524 Now the big storm-drops fall.
storm-flake n.
ΚΠ
1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xxi, in Poems (1967) 58 In thy sight Storm flakes were scroll-leaved flowers.
storm-gust n.
ΚΠ
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxvii. 198 Wild storm-gusts, sent down against us from Mont Blanc himself.
storm-lift n.
ΚΠ
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 372 The storm began To rumble, and the storm-lift moving slow, Over a full third of the sky to grow.
storm-month n.
ΚΠ
1894 Stonyhurst Mag. Feb. 233 And like the storm-months smote the earth.
storm-rack n.
ΚΠ
1878 O. Wilde Ravenna 14 As from the storm-rack comes a perfect star!
1926 J. N. Cameron in Oxf. Poetry 14 The haggard storm-rack of disastrous days.
storm-shock n.
ΚΠ
1849 C. Rossetti Poems (1904) 118/1 See the ancient pine that stands the firmer For the storm-shock that it bore.
storm-song n.
ΚΠ
1925 E. Blunden Eng. Poems 40 While on her soul the stormsong bursts, and groanings Knell through roof and flue.
storm-spirit n.
ΚΠ
1929 E. Blunden Near & Far 41 Storm-spirit, coil your lightnings round mad towers.
storm-sprite n.
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1817 W. Scott Harold iii. ix. 94 When the storm-sprite shrieks in air.
b.
storm-like adj.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ix. sig. Nn1v Whereout with sodaine fall..There came a chariot faire..Whose stormelike course staid not till hard by me it bided.
1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois ii. 16 Storme-like he fell, and hid the feare-cold Earth.
1706 S. Centlivre Basset-table iv. i. 44 I am Rough and Storm-like in my Temper.
C2. Instrumental.
storm-armed adj.
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a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Battail of Yvry in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1096 Storm-armd Auster cruell.
storm-beat adj.
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [adjective] > storm-tossed
forstormed1393
sea-beaten1562
sea-beat1579
storm-beaten1582
storm-beat1590
tempest-tossed1599
tempest-beaten1605
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > stormy > accompanied with or done in rough weather > tossed or beaten by storms
storm-beat1590
tempest-tossed1599
tempest-beaten1605
tempesteda1631
bestormed1837
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa3 Here may thy storme-bett vessell safely ryde.
1814 W. Scott To Dk. Buccleuch 64 On every storm-beat cape.
storm-beaten adj.
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [adjective] > storm-tossed
forstormed1393
sea-beaten1562
sea-beat1579
storm-beaten1582
storm-beat1590
tempest-tossed1599
tempest-beaten1605
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 17 Lyke plodding stormebeaten haglers.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxxiv. sig. C4 To dry the raine on my storme-beaten face. View more context for this quotation
1640 T. Carew Poems 37 I floate Farre from the shore, in a storme-beaten boat.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 191 Some stormbeaten pinnacle of rock.
storm-bitten adj.
ΚΠ
1939 W. B. Yeats Last Poems 6 A small forgotten house that's set On a storm-bitten green.
storm-bound adj.
ΚΠ
1830 T. Carlyle Let. 11 Feb. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1976) V. 72 After so many weeks, of storm-bound Inactivity.
storm-damaged adj.
ΚΠ
1980 New Age (U.S.) Oct. 26/1 Eight acres of storm-damaged apricots.
storm-driven adj.
ΚΠ
1841 J. G. Whittier Poet. Wks. (1898) 190/2 Loose rock and frozen slide, Hung on the mountain-side, Waiting their hour to glide Downward, storm-driven!
1900 W. S. Churchill in Morning Post 1 Jan. 6/2 These tall figures, full of animated movement, clad in dark flapping clothes, with slouch, storm-driven hats.
storm-encompassed adj.
ΚΠ
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna vii. xxxvii. 174 Like the fires that flare In storm-encompassed isles.
storm-laden adj.
ΚΠ
1899 J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris II. 27 The storm-laden air that he began to feel around him.
storm-rent adj.
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1794 S. T. Coleridge To Young Lady 21 Amid the yelling of the storm-rent skies!
1850 E. B. Browning Poet. Wks. (1904) 141/1 I lack your daring, up this storm-rent chasm To fix with violent hands a kindred god.
storm-swept adj.
ΚΠ
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel vi. xxi. 179 Where restless seas Howl round the storm-swept Orcades.
storm-threatened adj.
ΚΠ
1977 Times 4 Aug. 8/6 A fine quantum of derring-do ranging from icy Sweden to a storm-threatened Scottish islet.
storm-tormented adj.
ΚΠ
1844 Poe in Columbian Mag. Dec. 275/2 Storm-tormented ocean of his thoughts.
storm-torn adj.
ΚΠ
1876 J. G. Whittier Poet. Wks. (1898) 247/2 The storm-torn plumes Of old pine-forest kings.
?a1958 E. M. Forster Torque in Life to Come (1972) 169 They flew round and round the basilica.., they shot through its roof into the storm-torn night.
storm-tossed adj.
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1610–11 J. Davies Paper's Compl. (Grosart) 78/1 Looke downe..Vpon Thy Church storme-tossed euery houre.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. vi. 48 Through all these stormtost seas,..the Supreme Powers are driving us.
storm-troubled adj.
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1848 E. Brontë in Wuthering Heights (1850) 489 No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere.
storm-washed adj.
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1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story ii The storm-washed shores of Margate in winter.
storm-worn adj.
ΚΠ
1885 Ld. Tennyson Dead Prophet v A storm-worn signpost not to be read.
C3. Objective.
a.
storm-bringer n.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Storme brynger,..nimbifer.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 15 But with a flaw suddeyn chauffing stormbringer Orion, Spurnt vs too the waters.
b.
storm-boding adj.
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a1668 W. Davenant Masque in Wks. (1673) 365 The storm-boading Whale.
storm-breathing adj.
ΚΠ
1594 G. Chapman Σκìα Νυκτòς sig. Dij Storme-breathing Lelaps.
storm-portending adj.
ΚΠ
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 198 A storm-portending cloud.
storm-presaging adj.
ΚΠ
1809 W. Scott Poacher 143 The waning moon, with storm-presaging gleam.
C4. Special combinations. † storm-hole n. Obsolete ? an opening made in a wall for letting out water resulting from a storm.† storm-pole n. Military Obsolete each of a series of stakes driven into a defensive work as a protection against assault.† storm-winnock n. (Scottishstorm-windoik) Obsolete = storm window n. (a).
storm apron n. U.S. a waterproof sheet used to cover the front of an open carriage in wet weather.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > board or leather apron at front
apron1790
dashing-leather1794
knee-boot1794
splashing-board1809
splash-board1826
boot1828
dashboard1847
apron-cloth1857
dasher1858
dash1868
splasher1887
storm apron1895
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 591/2 Storm Aprons. These aprons are held firmly in position on the dash..forming an unbroken water-shed over front of dash. No mud, snow, or rain can settle inside of carriage.
1928 E. C. Vivian Nine Days vi A wooden-faced steersman's head showed from behind the storm-apron.
1943 L. I. Wilder These Happy Golden Years xxix. 260 Back in his [buggy] seat, he unrolled the rubber storm apron.
storm-area n. the area of the earth's surface over which a storm spreads itself; also figurative.
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > in relation to climate or weather conditions > specific
temperate zone1556
horse latitudes1777
sunland1827
iceland1842
pole of cold1850
storm-area1853
cloud-belt1860
cloud-ring1860
snow-belt1874
taiga1888
storm-zone1889
storm-belt1891
cold pole1909
icebox1909
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > stormy weather > area
storm-area1853
storm-zone1889
storm-belt1891
1853 W. R. Birt Handbk. Storms 29 The above considerations lead to a most important division of the storm area.
1898 Daily News 8 Nov. 4/7 As the day for the meeting of the Czar's Conference on Peace draws near, the storm-area seems to be steadily extending.
storm-beach n. (see quot. 1882).
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > beach or foreshore > spec
shingle1513
hard1728
shell beach1835
private beach1859
storm-beach1882
pocket beach1893
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. iii. i. iii. 277 Accumulations of gravel or ‘storm-beaches’ are often thrown up by storms, even above the level of ordinary high-tide mark.
storm-bell n. (a) [compare German sturmglocke] an alarm bell; (b) (see quot. 1910).
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society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > ringing of bells as signal > [noun] > as alarm signal > warning or alarm bell
larum bellc1453
warning bell1511
alarm bell1548
storm-bell1837
fray-bell1864
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > weather prediction > warning obtained by observation > signal exhibited > specific storm signals
storm-bell1837
drum1860
storm-cone1863
storm-drum1866
cone1875
storm flag1896
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. iv. 32 At two o'clock the storm-bell shall be sounded,..all Paris shall rush..and have itself enrolled.
1910 Encycl. Brit. III. 688/2 A storm-bell warns travellers in the plain of storms approaching from the mountains.
storm-belt n. a belt or zone in which storms occur periodically.
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > in relation to climate or weather conditions > specific
temperate zone1556
horse latitudes1777
sunland1827
iceland1842
pole of cold1850
storm-area1853
cloud-belt1860
cloud-ring1860
snow-belt1874
taiga1888
storm-zone1889
storm-belt1891
cold pole1909
icebox1909
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > stormy weather > area
storm-area1853
storm-zone1889
storm-belt1891
1891 Cent. Dict. Storm-belt.
storm boat n. Military a light but powerful boat used for conveying attacking troops across rivers.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > ship transporting troops or stores > landing craft
well-boat1690
horse-boat1907
tank landing lighter1917
landing craft1940
Siebel ferry1942
tank landing ship1942
landing ship1943
storm boat1945
1945 Sun (Baltimore) 27 Feb. 3/1 The sergeant..took them back to the road to carry the stormboat down to the river and launch it.
1945 Finito! Po Valley Campaign (15th Army Group) 12 Each 20-foot, powered, plywood storm boat.
storm-breeder n. (see quot. 1867).
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > storm-cloud
thunder-cloud1697
storm-cloud1822
thunderhead1851
storm-breeder1867
hogback1933
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Storm-breeders, heavy cumulo-stratus clouds.
storm card n. a transparent disc marked with lines representing the wind-directions of a cyclonic storm, to be placed over the ship's position on the chart in order to ascertain the course of the storm-centre.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > chart > transparent disc for use with
storm card1844
storm-circle1844
1844Storm card [see storm-circle n.].
storm cellar n. originally and chiefly U.S. a cellar or dugout made to be a place of refuge from a storm; also transferred and figurative.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > against weather or storms > cellar
cyclone cellar1887
storm cellar1920
1920 G. Ade Hand-made Fables 30 The Money-lender beat it to a Storm-Cellar.
1929 J. F. Dobie Vaquero of Brush Country 151 Storm cellars in north Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas still preserve its architecture.
1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics xii. 503 One.. suggestion is that a special ‘storm cellar’ be constructed within the spacecraft, a well-shielded area into which the crew could retreat.
1971 J. H. Gray Red Lights on Prairies ii. 36 When the first oratorical thunder clapped, the chief, the mayor..took to the storm cellars to wait for the storm to blow over.
1977 J. Cleary Vortex i. 8 People build storm cellars to retreat to.
storm centre n. the central area of a cyclonic storm, characterized by comparative calmness; figurative the central point around which a storm of controversy, trouble, etc. rages; the seat of disease, sedition, and the like.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > seat of disease
grief1577
focus1663
foyer1878
storm centre1894
the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > position of being in the midst > point which forms centre for its surroundings > centre of activity, operations, etc.
metropolis1599
metropolitana1620
focus1796
foyer1799
nerve-knot1832
hub1858
nerve centre1870
storm centre1894
nexus1971
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > stormy weather > a storm > cyclonic > comparatively calm centre of
storm centre1894
1894 Harper's Weekly 7 Apr. 315 It establishes a sort of Weather Bureau of disease, and..is to show..where the storm centres of communicable disease are.
1900 A. Church & F. Peterson Nervous & Mental Dis. (ed. 2) 181 The initial or signal symptom..becomes highly significant as pointing to the storm-center, the point of greatest instability and usually the seat of organic disease.
1900 Jrnl. School Geogr. (U.S.) June 228 To fix the direction of the storm centre from the vessel, it is thus only necessary to face the wind.
1965 Listener 30 Sept. 481/2 Europe is no longer the storm centre in world affairs. The clouds have shifted to Asia.
1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xxix. 335 She was having a good time standing outside the party storm center.
storm choke n. a safety valve installed in an oil-well pipe below the ocean surface, designed to stop the oil flow should it exceed a predetermined rate as a result of damage at the wellhead.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > blocking device
packer1870
storm choke1966
1966 P. Hinde Fortune in North Sea viii. 154 The first safety valve is installed and left at the bottom of each production well at sea, and is known as the Storm Choke.
1975 North Sea Background Notes (Brit. Petroleum Co.) 40 Precautions are taken to shut down production automatically on any failure of the wellhead or flow-line by installing suitable safety valves. These are the ‘storm choke’ in the well bore,..and the surface safety valve.
storm-circle n. = storm card n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > chart > transparent disc for use with
storm card1844
storm-circle1844
1844 H. Piddington Horn-bk. of Storms 5 The horn plates in the pockets of this book are what is called Col. Reid's Hurricane, or Storm, circles, or cards.
storm-clock n. (a) [German sturmglocke] , nonce-use an alarm bell; (b) a meteorograph, spec. one devised by Sir F. Ronalds ( Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909).
ΚΠ
1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose vi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 130 ‘That,’ said he, ‘must be the alarm—the storm-clock, as the Germans call it.’
storm-cloud n. a heavy cloud which threatens or comes with rain; also figurative.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > storm-cloud
thunder-cloud1697
storm-cloud1822
thunderhead1851
storm-breeder1867
hogback1933
1822 W. Scott Maid of Isla ii Her white wing gleams through mist and spray, Against the storm-cloud.
storm coat n. originally and chiefly U.S. a waterproof coat or heavy overcoat for use in stormy weather.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > weatherproof > other
dreadnought1797
storm coat1830
1830 J. F. Watson Ann. Philadelphia 179 In the year 1749, I met with the incidental mention of a singular over-coat, worn by captain James as a storm coat, made entirely of beaver fur.
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 250 He ran along over the wet stones like a wrecker in his storm coat.
1897 Outing 30 162/2 Stormcoat.
1953 ‘S. Ransome’ Drag Dark (1954) i. 16 The corpse..wore..a tan gabardine storm~coat, and big galoshes.
1974 ‘J. Ross’ Burning of Billy Toober i. 7 His stiff-fabric stormcoat.
1981 Daily Tel. 30 Mar. 18/5 Snug, high-collared storm coats are ready to roam Tibetan mountains.
storm collar n. (a) [G. sturmkragen, the long low roll of cloud that accompanies a squall or thunder-storm (Funk); (b) a coat-collar which may be turned up and fastened close round the neck.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > parts of > collar
cuff of the neck1740
storm collar1898
bolster collar1923
1898 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 124/1 Men's Klondike mining coats,..with 6-inch storm collar and capot to pull over the head.
1899 Daily News 26 Jan. 6/3 The cape matched the dress, and its empiecement and storm collar were covered with steel embroidery.
1908 Isle of Man Weekly Times 12 Sept. 3/5 The high storm collar almost enveloping the ears.
1931 Daily Mail 26 May 1/4 (advt.) West Riding suiting coats... Smart Storm Collar and pull-in Belt.
storm-compass n. = storm card n. (Cent. Dict.).
storm-cone n. = cone n.1 9.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > weather prediction > warning obtained by observation > signal exhibited > specific storm signals
storm-bell1837
drum1860
storm-cone1863
storm-drum1866
cone1875
storm flag1896
1863 in Fitzroy Rep. Meteorologic Office (1864) p. xi (note) This morning the storm cone was hoisted.
storm-current n. (see quot. 1843).
ΚΠ
1843 H. Piddington in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 12 i. 398 The ‘storm current’ may be briefly described as circular streams on the circumferences of rotatory storms.
storm door n. originally U.S. an outer or supplementary door for use in stormy weather.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door
hall-doorc1275
falling doorc1300
stable doorc1330
vice-door1354
hecka1400
lodge-doorc1400
street door1465
gate-doora1500
portal1516
backdoor1530
portal door1532
side door1535
by-door1542
outer door1548
postern door1551
house door1565
fore-door1581
way-door1597
leaf door1600
folding door1611
clap-door1625
balcony-door1635
out-door1646
anteportc1660
screen door1668
frontish-door1703
posticum1704
side entrance1724
sash-door1726
Venetian door1731
oak1780
jib-door1800
trellis?c1800
sporting door1824
ledge-door1825
through door1827
bivalves1832
swing-door1833
tradesmen's entrance1838
ledged door1851
tradesmen's door?1851
fire door1876
storm door1878
shoji1880
fire door1889
Dutch door1890
patio door1900
stable door1900
ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901
suicide door1925
louvre door1953
1878 E. B. Tuttle Border Tales 29 The horses..broke loose from the stable, and begun gnawing the storm doors in front of the officers' quarters.
1939 H. M. Miner St. Denis ii. 25 Storm doors or built-on entries are put on the houses in winter.
1977 Grimsby Evening Tel. 27 May 17/7 (advt.) Freehold semi-detached house... Porch with storm door. Entrance Hall.
storm drain n. a drain built to carry away excess water in times of heavy rain.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > other types of drainage
gutteringc1420
strand1565
sewaging1610
thorough-draining1669
cuniculus1670
French drain1738
riggot?1746
bush-draining1748
surface drain1765
land-drain1767
pipe-draining1776
surface draining1777
fox1784
surface drainage1796
mole drain1804
soughing1808
acequia1811
well-draining1818
tile-draining1830
wedge-draining?1830
plug-draining1833
land-drainage1841
land-draining1841
mole-draining1842
trough gutter1856
mole-ditching1860
mole drainage1860
tile-drainagea1865
well point1867
karez1875
storm sewer1887
moling1943
tiling1943
storm drain1960
1960 C. Achebe No Longer at Ease ii. 16 His car was parked close to a wide-open storm drain from which came a very strong smell of rotting flesh.
1974 N. Gordimer Conservationist 218 The English-language evening paper published a picture of a pet dog being rescued from a flooded storm-drain by the fire brigade.
storm-drum n. a canvas cylinder hoisted in conjunction with the storm cone as a weather-signal; = drum n.1 7b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > weather prediction > warning obtained by observation > signal exhibited > specific storm signals
storm-bell1837
drum1860
storm-cone1863
storm-drum1866
cone1875
storm flag1896
1866 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 4/5 It is not because occasional perturbations..baffle the reckonings of science, that meteorology should be ignored—four times out of five the storm-drum is right.
1881 Times 19 Jan. 10/3 This evening the south storm-drum is hoisted at the semaphore at the Dockyard.
storm-fire n. = corposant n.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning > St. Elmo's fire
heaven's fireOE
St. Elmo's fire1561
Hermes' fire1611
corposant1650
furole1656
Castor1708
composant1751
storm-light1843
storm-firea1847
dead-fire1854
witch-fire1892
a1847 E. Cook Birds v. 21 The storm-fire burns, but what care they?
1883 A. I. Menken Infelicia 38 Heed not the storm-fires that so terribly burn in the black sky.
storm flag n. (a) U.S. each of the flags used in the U.S. system of storm-signalling ( Cent. Dict.); (b) the smallest national flag used at posts and flown only in stormy weather (W. 1911).
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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > flag signalling > [noun] > signal flag > specific
black flag1583
yellow flag1587
red flag1748
yellow jack1753
Blue Peter1754
fire flag1798
recall1832
pilot jack1848
homeward-bound pennant1853
powder flag1864
paying-off pennant1869
Peter1890
storm flag1896
negative flag1897
blackball1966
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > weather prediction > warning obtained by observation > signal exhibited > specific storm signals
storm-bell1837
drum1860
storm-cone1863
storm-drum1866
cone1875
storm flag1896
1896 Weather Bureau Bull. (U.S.) No. 80. 7 Two storm flags (red with black centers), displayed one above the other,..announce the expected approach of tropical hurricanes.
storm-flap n. a piece of material designed to protect an opening or fastening from the effects of rain, as on a tent, coat, etc.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > against weather or storms > others
windscreen1671
paragrêle1830
weather-wall1838
paragrandine1842
ombrifuge1869
snow-hole1880
wind-break1894
storm-flap1929
trog1958
1929 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 373/1 Palmetto Tent... Insect-proof mosquito door and rear window with storm flap operated from inside.
1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 41 Trench-coat... This short-cape effect is often called a ‘storm cape’ or ‘storm flaps’.
1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 13/2 (advt.) Nylon Mountain Tent... Rear screen window with storm flap.
1973 Shooting Times & Country Mag. 7 July 37/2 (advt.) Zip full length from neck to hem, covered by storm flap.
storm-glass n. a hermetically sealed tube containing a solution which becomes flocculent on the approach of a storm.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > meteorological instruments > [noun] > tube used in storm prediction
storm-glass1823
1823 Mechanic's Mag. 1 174 Those glasses..which are sold in the shops of opticians, under the name of ‘Storm Glasses’.
1864 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. I. 78 The relation between the phenomena occurring in the storm-glass and in the atmosphere respectively, is really not a correspondence at all.
storm-god n. a deity supposed to rule the storms.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > of specific things > of (types of) weather
zephyrOE
wind-god1594
rain god1838
thunder god1841
rain-goddess1854
storm-goddess1869
storm power1869
storm-god1877
bolt-bearer1883
weather-god1905
1877 J. E. Carpenter tr. C. P. Tiele Outl. Hist. Relig. 113 In this conflict he [Indra vritrahan] is surrounded by the Maruts or storm-gods, led by Rudra.
storm-goddess n.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > of specific things > of (types of) weather
zephyrOE
wind-god1594
rain god1838
thunder god1841
rain-goddess1854
storm-goddess1869
storm power1869
storm-god1877
bolt-bearer1883
weather-god1905
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 320 The character of a storm-goddess, in which she [the Lamia] thus appears.
storm-head window n. a kind of dormer window.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > dormer window
storm-winnock15..
dormer1592
dormant window1651
luthern1669
storm window1824
storm-head window1833
wall-dormer1886
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §455 The next characteristic is the storm-head window.
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1419 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 146 Et in salar. Will. de Cloke, carpentarii, emendantis diversos defectus in le Ales, et facientis Storm-holes.
storm-house n. U.S. a temporary shelter against storm for workmen ( Cent. Dict.); also, a shelter from the weather on a boat.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > against weather or storms > for workmen
storm-house1836
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck superstructure > deckhouse > types of
summercastle1345
summer-hutch1420
poop1551
roundhouse1611
caboose1747
hurricane-house1818
wheelhouse1835
storm-house1836
pilothouse1842
Texas1853
Liverpool house1869
monkey forecastle1870
1836 T. Power Impressions of Amer. I. 31 She..had stump-royal masts, and a storm-house abaft.
1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 8/2 The James Cropper..was fitted with..a storm house over the wheel.
1887 Harper's Mag. Dec. 119/1 Two men..were bending down at the storm-house in front of her parlor-door.
storm-jacket n. a weather-proof jacket.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jacket > weatherproof
shell1802
storm-jacket1844
parka1897
anorak1936
1844 H. Miller in W. K. Leask Life (1896) iv. 109 Encased in his ample-skirted storm-jacket of oiled canvas.
storm-jib n. Nautical (see quot. 1867).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a stay > jib or sail set on forestay > types of
marabut1622
flying jib1711
storm-jiba1827
spitfire-jib1858
jib topsail1866
reaching foresail1901
reacher1903
jumbo1912
Yankee1912
Yankee jib1912
Genoa1932
Genoa jib1932
slave1934
quad1937
slave jib1948
masthead genoa1958
a1827 W. Hickey Mem. (1960) xiii. 207 It blew so hard we could scarcely carry a close-reefed mainsail and storm-jib.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple (ed. 2) III. vii. 81 Another trysail and a storm-jib were expanded to the wind.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Storm-jib, in cutters, the fifth or sixth size: the inner jib of square-rigged ships.
storm-kite n. (see quot. 1867).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > device for sending hawser from stranded ship
storm-kite1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Storm-kite, a contrivance for sending a hawser from a stranded vessel to the shore.
storm lantern n. originally U.S. = hurricane-lamp n. at hurricane n. Compounds 2.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > with a protected flame
hurricane-lamp1894
storm lantern1895
hurricane-lantern1903
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 553/2 Cold Blast or Storm Lantern: is made on the same principle as street lamps, with wind break.
1923 W. Deeping Secret Sanctuary xx. 207 He..lit the storm-lantern he used at night, and extinguished the lamp.
1964 D. Varaday Gara-Yaka vi. 51 I hurried to the hut with a storm lantern.
1976 Norwich Mercury 17 Dec. 6/7 If the light fails, you use a storm lantern.
storm-light n. the lurid light seen in a stormy sky; also = corposant n.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > light from the sky > a light or bright patch in the sky
glodec1400
glade1558
streak1597
under-bright1824
storm-light1843
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning > St. Elmo's fire
heaven's fireOE
St. Elmo's fire1561
Hermes' fire1611
corposant1650
furole1656
Castor1708
composant1751
storm-light1843
storm-firea1847
dead-fire1854
witch-fire1892
1843 R. W. Emerson Carlyle in Wks. (1906) III. 315 It is not serene sunshine, but everything is seen in lurid storm-lights.
1906 Month June 629 That the poets..should many of them allude to the mysterious storm-lights in their poems, is not surprising.
storm mizzen n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sails set near stern > specific
driver1750
ringtail1769
spanker1794
storm mizzen1794
jigger1831
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 135 Storm Mizen. This sail is triangular, and..bends on the fore part to a horse, abaft and parallel to the mizen-mast.
storm-pane adj. (see quots.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > object on land or sea as guide > light beacon or lighthouse > pane of glass
storm-pane1875
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Storm-pane, a supplementary, framed sheet of glass, to substitute, in an emergency, for a broken pane in a lighthouse.
1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains v. 176 The reflectors scratched, the spare lamp unready, the storm-panes in the storehouse.
storm-path n. = storm track n.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > stormy weather > a storm > cyclonic > path of
storm track1838
storm-path1850
squall line1906
1850 W. R. Birt Hurricane Guide 55 The lower and upper branches of the storm paths of the Northern Atlantic.
storm-pavement n. (see quot. 1875).
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > structures protecting from water or flooding > [noun] > breakwater > part of
storm-pavement1875
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Storm-pavement, the sloping stone paving which lines the sea-face of piers and breakwaters.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > palisade or stockade > [noun] > pole for palisade or stockade
stake1297
palisado1616
storm-pole1647
palisade1697
1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva iv. vii. 249 Round about the Line, both upon the Bulworks and the Curtin, was strongly set with storm-poles.
storm-porch n. a porch for the protection of an outer door from storms.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > porch
porticeOE
porchc1300
back porch1535
prothyrum1600
propylaeum1637
pentastich1656
propylon1830
ramada1869
storm-porch1879
1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 15 Oct. Houses..should be protected at every much-used entrance, by storm-porches.
storm power n. = storm-god n.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > of specific things > of (types of) weather
zephyrOE
wind-god1594
rain god1838
thunder god1841
rain-goddess1854
storm-goddess1869
storm power1869
storm-god1877
bolt-bearer1883
weather-god1905
1869 J. Ruskin Queen of Air i. §20 Another beneficent storm power, Boreas, occupies an important place in early legend.
storm-proof adj. (a) impervious to storm; also, protected from or affording protection from stormy weather; (b) proof against storming or assault; also figurative.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [adjective] > of the nature of a shelter > sheltering > from the weather
storm-proof1594
umbrellian1721
weather-fending1873
society > armed hostility > defence > [adjective] > proof against attack
war-proof1777
storm-proof1886
the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective] > safe or invulnerable > not effectively assailable
inexpugnablea1535
unassaultable1571
Achillean1579
impregnable1582
unassailable1596
invulnerable1663
inattackable1832
unpuncturable1891
storm-proof1911
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. D3v Sailers do pitch their apparell, to make it storme-proofe.
1886 N. L. Walford Parl. Generals of Civil War 258 There had not been sufficient time..to make them [sc. the fortifications] storm-proof.
1901 Daily Chron. 27 July 10/3 Many women prefer to have their cover-all rendered storm~proof by a patent process.
1909 Chambers's Jrnl. May 335/2 The lamp is stormproof, and is unaffected by cold weather, while it constitutes the safest form of street-lighting that has yet been devised.
1911 J. H. Rose Pitt & Great War vii. 192 The constitution had suffered dilapidation, but it was storm-proof.
1968 R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 224 So I set up a good storm-proof camp on a level point between two streams.
storm rubber n. North American a rubber overshoe.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > overshoe > types of
pattenc1574
India rubber1825
foothold1851
storm rubber1895
toe-rubber1948
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 522/3 Woman's Storm Rubber: nothing better for wet weather.
1924–25 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 146/2 Women's first quality Black Storm Rubbers with round toes and low heels.
storm-sail n. (see quot. 1867).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > small sail of stout canvas
storm-sail1840
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xi. 85 We came down to double-reefed top-sails and the storm-sails.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Storm-sail, a sail made of stout No. 1 canvas, of reduced dimensions, for use in a gale.
storm sewer n. U.S. = storm drain n. above.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > other types of drainage
gutteringc1420
strand1565
sewaging1610
thorough-draining1669
cuniculus1670
French drain1738
riggot?1746
bush-draining1748
surface drain1765
land-drain1767
pipe-draining1776
surface draining1777
fox1784
surface drainage1796
mole drain1804
soughing1808
acequia1811
well-draining1818
tile-draining1830
wedge-draining?1830
plug-draining1833
land-drainage1841
land-draining1841
mole-draining1842
trough gutter1856
mole-ditching1860
mole drainage1860
tile-drainagea1865
well point1867
karez1875
storm sewer1887
moling1943
tiling1943
storm drain1960
1887 W. E. S. Fales Brooklyn's Guardians iii. 43 The improvements contemplated the repairing of the great thoroughfares..; the construction of storm sewers.
1941 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Sept. 9/3 Silting-up of the channel, due, it is said, to discharge from storm sewers.
1978 J. Irving World according to Garp iv. 77 The storm sewers bogged.
storm shutter n. an outside window-shutter for use in stormy weather.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > fittings or ornaments of windows > shutter
fall window1422
lock1440
window?c1500
lid1535
winnock-bred1546
window lid1591
counter-window1600
shut1611
shuttle1614
window-broad1628
window-shut1649
window shutter1665
window board1683
shutter1720
fallboard1742
jalousie1766
storm shutter1834
rain door1867
amado1873
sunbreak1891
brise-soleil1944
1834 E. W. Brayley in Graphic & Hist. Illustr. 395/1 All the windows..are protected by storm-shutters.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 18 Mar. 10/1 All the windows, too, have storm-shutters.
storm-signal n. a signal exhibited at coastguard stations, etc., to give warning of the approach and direction of dangerous winds; also figurative.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > weather prediction > warning obtained by observation > signal exhibited
storm-signal1863
1863 in Fitzroy Rep. Meteorologic Office (1864) p. xi (note) Drum storm signal hoisted at noon.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Storm-signal, the hoisting of a danger-flag. Also, Fitzroy's drum and cone, which show the direction of the expected gale.
1905 W. O'Brien Recoll. vii. 136 We who knew Egan's storm-signals, saw the tips of his ears redden and a bright scarlet point appear in the centre of his cheeks.
storm-signalling n. the signalling of storms; also attributive.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > weather prediction > warning obtained by observation > signalling of storm
storm-signalling1875
1875 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 Jan. 8/1 Storm-signalling apparatus is supplied by the Board of Trade.
storm-spencer n. = storm-trysail n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > trysail
try1665
trysail1769
spencer1840
storm-trysail1851
storm-spencer1857
1857 M. F. Maury in D. F. M. Corbin Life M. F. Maury (1888) 135 The storm-spencer had been blown away.
storm-stayed adj. (also storm-staid) chiefly Scottish, prevented by stress of weather from making or continuing a journey.
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society > travel > [adjective] > detained by bad weather
storm-stayed1491
storm-stead1513
wintered1556
wind-bound1588
weather-bound1590
water-bound1776
ice-bound1822
snowed-up1836
fog-logged1846
snowed-in1904
1491 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 203/1 In the accioun..tueching þe takin of a schip & gudes..stormestaid & drevin to þe Erlis fery.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxii. 216 An abrupt change of the weather gave us a howling gale outside, and we were all of us storm-stayed.
1880 I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks Japan I. 344 The yadoyas are crowded with storm-staid travellers.
storm-staysail n. a staysail of reduced dimensions for use in a storm.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a stay > other staysails
mainstaysail1669
storm-staysail1850
spilling-staysail1851
queen staysail1922
queen's staysail1926
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. II. 255 We set the fore storm-staysail anew.
storm-stead adj. Scottish = storm-stayed adj.
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society > travel > [adjective] > detained by bad weather
storm-stayed1491
storm-stead1513
wintered1556
wind-bound1588
weather-bound1590
water-bound1776
ice-bound1822
snowed-up1836
fog-logged1846
snowed-in1904
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid iii. iii. (heading) How Troiane goddis apperis to Enee, And how that he was stormested on the see.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 94 I stayed sixteene dayes, storme-sted with Northernely winds.
1787 R. Burns Let. 8 Oct. (2001) I. 161 I was storm-steaded two days at the foot of the Ochel hills.
1888 J. M. Barrie Auld Licht Idylls ii. 41 Storm-stead shows used to emphasize the severity of a Thrums winter.
storm-shoes n. strong shoes for use in stormy weather.
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1913 W. H. Dooley Man. Shoemaking 56 In the uppers of the best storm shoes you will always find box calf.
storm surge n. Oceanography an abnormal raising of the sea level in a region as a result of the wind and atmospheric pressure changes associated with a storm.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > change in level of water > [noun] > rise in level of water > of sea
spring of the seaa1398
storm surge1929
1929 A. T. Doodson Rep. Thames Floods 5 If there are no tidal predictions available the problem of separating the storm surge from the tidal oscillation is by no means easy.
1956 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 237 325 The problem [of the mathematical solution of tides in a closed channel] is increased in difficulty when a storm surge of a non-periodic character is superposed upon the periodic tide.
1970 D. A. Ross Introd. Oceanogr. vii. 229 In the Gulf Coast area of the United States, storm surges have been known to raise the water level as much as 7m.
storm-system n. the group of low-pressure areas (revolving round a centre of lowest pressure) constituting a cyclonic storm.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > stormy weather > a storm > cyclonic
cyclone1848
willy-willy1880
storm-system1897
cockeye1904
1897 Daily News 26 Jan. 7/1 Later in the day the storm-system continued to increase in depth.
storm track n. the path traversed by the centre of a cyclonic storm.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > stormy weather > a storm > cyclonic > path of
storm track1838
storm-path1850
squall line1906
1838 W. Reid Law of Storms 430 The storm tracks here traced.
storm-trysail n. (see quot. 1867).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > trysail
try1665
trysail1769
spencer1840
storm-trysail1851
storm-spencer1857
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxiii. 566 A storm-trysail was set further aft.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Storm-trysail, a fore-and-aft sail, hoisted by a gaff, but having no boom at its foot, and only used in foul weather.
1967 L. S. Tawes Coasting Captain 259 I slacked off my storm trysail sheet.
storm-warning n. warning of the approach of a storm obtained by meteorological observation.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > weather prediction > warning obtained by observation
storm-warning1867
1867 A. Buchan Handy Bk. Meteorol. 9 Storm-warnings.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 158/1 Weather Forecasts and Storm Warnings.
storm-water n. (a) an abnormal amount of surface water resulting from a heavy fall of rain or snow; also attributive; (b) poetic water agitated by a storm.
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the world > the earth > water > [noun] > water on land > on surface of ground > resulting from rain or snow
storm-water1879
the world > the earth > water > body of water > moving water > [noun] > agitated water
swalla1340
swelth1563
break1852
storm-water1879
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) III. 394 Storm-waters, as they may be called,..fall in such quantities within..an hour or two as entirely to overcharge all ordinary systems of drainage.
1887 G. Meredith Ballads & Poems 92 Howled and pressed the ghastly crew, Like storm-waters over rocks.
1905 Daily Chron. 3 July 6/7 Heavy rain began to come down—so heavy that the storm-water sewers were not able to take it off.
storm-wave n. an abnormally heavy wave due to cyclonic disturbance which rolls across the ocean and frequently causes the inundation of low-lying coast lands; also figurative.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > storm
storm-wave1839
1839 D. Milne in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 14 486 This storm-wave (for such it may not improperly be termed) moved..through the Atlantic in a N.NE. direction.
1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne I. iv. 120 Her bosom would heave with a great storm-wave of passionate emotion.
storm wind n. the wind which accompanies a storm; also figurative; spec. a wind having a speed within certain limits (see quots. and cf. 1b).
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > strong or violent wind
birra1325
racka1400
galea1547
Euroclydon1561
huff-gale1582
whiskera1598
gale-wind1628
sniffler1768
snifter1768
storm wind1839
buster1848
snorter1855
snorer1871
blusterer1877
ripsnorter1889
smeller1898
hurricane wind1921
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > strong or violent wind > of particular degree of violence
storm1801
storm wind1839
1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion I. i. vii The storm-wind came from the Alsatian hills.
1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1876) ii. iv. 72 Like..a steamer with a storm-wind directly against her and an iron-bound coast behind.
1892 G. F. X. Griffith tr. C. Fouard St. Peter 78 The storm-winds of trial swept over them.
1923 W. N. Shaw Forecasting Weather (ed. 2) 456 As a result of the investigation of 1905 we now classify winds with velocity above 75 miles per hour as hurricane winds, those with velocity between 64 and 75 miles per hour as storm winds, and those between 39 and 63 as gales.
1959 Gloss. Meteorol. (Amer. Meteorol. Soc.) 545 Storm wind, in the Beaufort wind scale, a wind whose speed is from 56 to 63 knots (64 to 72 mph).
storm window n. (a) = storm-head window n.; (b) an outer window to protect the inner from the effects of storms (Cassell 1888); (c) North American a detachable window put up in winter to form an insulating double window.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > dormer window
storm-winnock15..
dormer1592
dormant window1651
luthern1669
storm window1824
storm-head window1833
wall-dormer1886
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > other types of window
loop1393
shot-windowc1405
gable window1428
batement light1445
church window1458
shot1513
casement1538
dream-hole1559
luket1564
draw window1567
loop-window1574
loophole1591
tower-windowc1593
thorough lights1600
squinch1602
turret window1603
slit1607
close-shuts1615
gutter window1620
street lighta1625
balcony-window1635
clere-story window1679
slip1730
air-loop1758
Venetian1766
Venetian window1775
sidelight1779
lancet window1781
French casement1804
double window1819
couplet1844
spire-light1846
lancet1848
tower-light1848
triplet1849
bar-window1857
pair-light1868
nook window1878
coupled windows1881
three-light1908–9
north-light1919
storm window1933
borrowed light1934
Thermopane1941
storms1952
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. iv. 63 There were what are called storm-windows in the roof.
1933 L. I. Wilder Farmer Boy xxii. 174 They fitted storm doors and storm windows on the house.
1956 W. R. Bird Off-trail in Nova Scotia ii. 51 She's always nagging Sam to take off the storm windows, whitewash the fence.
1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. c21/1 (advt.) 3 Track Storm Window $20.95 each.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > dormer window
storm-winnock15..
dormer1592
dormant window1651
luthern1669
storm window1824
storm-head window1833
wall-dormer1886
15.. Aberd. Reg. (MS.) (Jam.) The bigging of the storme-windoik.
storm-zone n. = storm-belt n.
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > in relation to climate or weather conditions > specific
temperate zone1556
horse latitudes1777
sunland1827
iceland1842
pole of cold1850
storm-area1853
cloud-belt1860
cloud-ring1860
snow-belt1874
taiga1888
storm-zone1889
storm-belt1891
cold pole1909
icebox1909
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > stormy weather > area
storm-area1853
storm-zone1889
storm-belt1891
1889 R. Hinman Eclectic Physical Geogr. vi. 94 The regions between 40° and 70° latitude are the great storm zones of the world.
C5. In names of certain birds, the movements or cries of which are supposed to presage a storm: These words are sometimes used figuratively to designate a person whose activity is a sign of impending discord.
storm-bird n. (a) = storm-petrel n.; (b) = thunder-bird n. (b) at thunder n. Compounds 2; (c) a local name (Norfolk) for the fieldfare (Swainson).
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Hydrobatidae > procellaria pelagica (stormy petrel)
devil's bird1634
sea-swallow1647
storm-finch1661
assilag1698
storm-bird1752
devil bird1759
Mother Carey's chicken1767
storm finch1768
witch1770
alamootiea1777
stormy petrel1776
water witch1794
spency1813
storm-petrel1833
stilt stormy petrel1884
Tom Tailor1885
the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > types of mythical bird
pelicanOE
tiger1481
Stymphalid1560
roc1579
mamuque?1590
firebird1601
sunbird1616
ganzaa1633
cocklicrane1653
white bird1697
wakon-bird1778
simurgh1786
thunder-birda1827
huma1841
oozlum bird1858
lightning bird1870
jubjub1871
ho-ho bird1901
storm-bird1913
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 514 [The Petrel] was first mentioned in the Stockholm Transactions, under the name of Procellaria, or the Storm-bird.
1867 G. Smith Three Eng. Statesmen (1882) 34 Lady Carlyle—a storm-bird of this parliamentary storm.
1913 J. R. Harris Boanerges xxv. 267 The Arabian Storm-bird or thunder-bird.
storm cock n. the missel-thrush; also locally applied to the fieldfare and the green woodpecker (G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk.).
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker) > picus viridis (green woodpecker)
rain-fowl1440
woodwall1490
speight1513
hickwall?1533
rainbird1544
woodspite1555
green-peak1598
yaffingale1609
pick-a-tree1615
witwall1668
storm cock1769
nicker-pecker1787
yaffle1792
awl-bird1802
popinjay1802
yaffler1802
dirt-bird1847
yuckle1847
stock eagle1884
nicker1886
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus pilaris (fieldfare)
fieldfareOE
juniper1598
storm cock1769
pigeon fieldfare1812
bluetail1836
jack bird1861
felt1879
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus viscivorus (mistle-thrush)
song thrush1598
mistle-bird1626
mistle thrush1646
shreitch1668
shrite1668
mistletoe thrush1719
storm cock1769
wood-thrush1791
rain-fowl1817
thrice-cock1819
mistle1845
hollin cock1848
fen-thrush1854
storm thrush1854
shirlcock1859
fell-thrush1879
felt1879
jay1880
jay pie1880
Norman thrush1885
stone-thrush1885
1769 G. White Let. 2 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 120 Missel-bird, Turdus viscivorus... Is called in Hampshire and Sussex the storm-cock.
1819 M. Edgeworth Let. 26 Jan. (1971) 160 When a dark black cloud threatens a heavy shower..then the storm-cock cries or screams.
1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad x. 17 So braver notes the storm-cock sings To start the rusted wheel of things.
1902 G. Brenan House of Percy II. ii. 32 Charles Paget—storm-cock of Catholic agitation.
1978 Country Life 7 Sept. 630/1 The mistle thrush..will sing in the wildest weather and fully justify its vernacular name of storm~cock.
storm-finch n. (also †storm-finck) †storm-fink) = storm-petrel n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Hydrobatidae > procellaria pelagica (stormy petrel)
devil's bird1634
sea-swallow1647
storm-finch1661
assilag1698
storm-bird1752
devil bird1759
Mother Carey's chicken1767
storm finch1768
witch1770
alamootiea1777
stormy petrel1776
water witch1794
spency1813
storm-petrel1833
stilt stormy petrel1884
Tom Tailor1885
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A6 [Aquatic birds] as the..stormfinck.
1804 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds II. 249 (heading) Stormy Petrel. Storm Finch, or Little Petrel.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Storm-finch, the petrel, or Mother Cary's chicken.
storm-petrel n. Procellaria pelagica (cf. stormy adj. 3).
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Hydrobatidae > procellaria pelagica (stormy petrel)
devil's bird1634
sea-swallow1647
storm-finch1661
assilag1698
storm-bird1752
devil bird1759
Mother Carey's chicken1767
storm finch1768
witch1770
alamootiea1777
stormy petrel1776
water witch1794
spency1813
storm-petrel1833
stilt stormy petrel1884
Tom Tailor1885
1833 P. J. Selby Illustr. Brit. Ornithol. II. 533 Common Storm-Petrel.
1833 P. J. Selby Illustr. Brit. Ornithol. II. 537 Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel.
1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds III. 514 The Storm Petrel,..exhibiting the deep keel of a Swift, and possessing accordingly enduring powers of flight.
1885 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 712/1 The common Storm Petrel, Procellaria pelagica,..is the ‘Mother Carey's chicken’ of sailors, and is widely believed to be the harbinger of bad weather.
storm thrush n. the missel-thrush.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus viscivorus (mistle-thrush)
song thrush1598
mistle-bird1626
mistle thrush1646
shreitch1668
shrite1668
mistletoe thrush1719
storm cock1769
wood-thrush1791
rain-fowl1817
thrice-cock1819
mistle1845
hollin cock1848
fen-thrush1854
storm thrush1854
shirlcock1859
fell-thrush1879
felt1879
jay1880
jay pie1880
Norman thrush1885
stone-thrush1885
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 301 Storm-cock or Storm-thrush. The missel-thrush.
1913 Eng. Rev. Apr. 157 Like a storm-thrush piping its warning.
Draft additions September 2016
chiefly British. to go down a storm: to be enthusiastically or noisily received by an audience; to be eagerly greeted by the public or a specific group.In quot. 1820, apparently describing a noisily unenthusiastic theatre audience.
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1820 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 25 Nov. 4/3 An Indian tale of the school..of Madame Genlis, rather unskilfully dramatized. It passed off very flatly. Its close drew down a storm.]
1969 N. Cohn Pop from Beginning iv. 33 Several times he toured Britain and each time he went down a storm.
1987 New Scientist 30 July 63/3 The coating is textured and comes in a variety of colours, so it should go down a storm in conservation areas.
2011 F. North Pillow Talk vi. 58 Charlton looked..alarmingly like..the leather-clad chap from the Village People; a look which hadn't gone down well in his home town of Stokesley but had gone down a storm when he hit the gay scene in London.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
stormv.
/stɔːm/, U.S. /stɔrm/ 1. figurative.?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads i. 148 That..he, whose bow thus stormd For our offences, may be calmd.1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast v. 34 Throughout the night it stormed violently—rain, hail, snow, and sleet beating upon the vessel.1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms To storm, to blow with violence; impersonally, as, it storms... We use it improperly in the sense of to rain or to snow.1856 S. Warner Hills of Shatemuc xix Come in..it is going to storm hard... It's going to be a bad storm;—you'll be better under here.1858 M. F. Maury in D. F. M. Corbin Life M. F. Maury (1888) 168 It is now snowing and storming furiously.1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad ii. 29 It was still raining. And not only raining, but storming. ‘Outside’..there was a tremendous sea on.1894 Chambers's Jrnl. 16 June 376/1 Oh, but the nuts fall much more quickly when it storms.
a. intransitive. Of the elements or weather: To be tempestuous or stormy, to rage.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [verb (intransitive)] > storm or be stormy
storm14..
tempest1477
lay1572
14.. Chaucer's Boeth. i. met. vii. (1868) 29 Þe trouble wynde þat hyȝt auster stormynge [Camb. MS. turnyng: L. mare volvens] and walwyng þe see medleþ þe heete.
1565 T. Stapleton tr. F. Staphylus Apologie Pref. 3 As the quiet passanger when the sea stormeth.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Dec. 131 So now he [winter] stormes with many a sturdy stoure.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion x. 159 From Shetland stradling wide, his foote on Thuly sets: Whence storming, all the vast Deucalidon hee [Boreas] threts.
b. impersonal. To blow violently; also to rain, snow, etc. heavily. Now only U.S.
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 130 Il tempeste, it stormeth.
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. iii. 5/2 The nearer wee are vnto the land, the more it stormeth, raineth, thundreth and calmeth.
c. transferred. To rush with the violence of a storm.
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1842 Ld. Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 214 The music..Rose again from where it seem'd to fail, Storm'd in orbs of song, a growing gale.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Charge Light Brigade ii, in Maud & Other Poems 152 Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well; Into the jaws of Death.
2. transitive. To make stormy. In quots. figurative to trouble, vex, disturb. Also passive.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > throw into commotion or disorder [verb (transitive)]
stirc950
disturbc1290
troublec1330
turmoil1530
to set cock on the hoopa1549
garboil1572
blend1594
irrequiate1598
storm1609
uproara1616
embroil1619
dissettle1631
unsettle1651
hurly-burly1678
unhinge1679
disrest1726
commote1852
1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. Kv I..Ere long espied a fickle maid..Storming her world with sorrowes, wind and raine.
1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic lxiv Our simulated thunder~claps Which tell us counterfeited truths—these same Are—sound, when music storms the soul, perhaps?—Sight, [etc.].
1883 H. W. Beecher in Christian World Pulpit XXIV. 122/3 I honour men who are stormed like the ocean, whose sky is dark, on whom the waves of trouble roll.
3.
a. intransitive. To complain with rough and violent language; to rage. Const. at, against (a grievance or person).
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the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > show anger [verb (intransitive)] > speak angrily
spitc1386
ragea1400
blowc1475
blustera1494
storm?1553
pelt1594
tear1602
fare1603
to speak or look daggers1603
to blow hot coalsc1626
rant1647
scream1775
to pop off1914
to carry on1947
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > complain [verb (intransitive)]
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misspeakOE
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chidea1000
murkenOE
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gruntc1325
plainc1325
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murmurc1390
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storm?1553
expostulate1561
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gruntle1591
chunter1599
swagger1599
maunder1622
orp1634
objurgate1642
pitter1672
yelp1706
yammer1794
natter1804
murgeon1808
groan1816
squawk1875
jower1879
grouse1887
beef1888
to whip the cat1892
holler1904
yip1907
peeve1912
grouch1916
nark1916
to sound off1918
create1919
moana1922
crib1925
tick1925
bitch1930
gripe1932
bind1942
drip1942
kvetchc1950
to rag on1979
wrinch2011
?1553 Respublica (1952) iii. vi. 32 Ye muste storme, and sharpelye take hym vp for stumbling.
?1553 Respublica (1952) i. iii. 8 Avar. Feyth manne I spake but even to prove your pacyence, that yf thowe haddest grunted or stormed thereat—Adul. Naie fewe times doe I vse suche lewde manier as that.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1225/1 The Priestes..began to grudge & storme against Tyndall.
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. E2v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Such odde kinde of reportes..the least wherof would make you storme to the gall.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 135 Why looke you how you storme, I would be friends with you. View more context for this quotation
1610 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 2) 1254 Storming against their Generall for not beeing a coward, as they themselues were.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads v. 868 O Father stormst thou not To see vs take these wrongs from men?
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 15 Oh they storme and rage as a Beare robbed of her Whelpes.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 239 She curses and storms at me like a Trooper.
1797 E. Berkeley in G. M. Berkeley Poems Pref. p. ccxxviii Mrs. Berkeley used to storm nobly on these occasions.
1813 Ld. Byron Bride Abydos i. xiii. 441 And he so often storms at nought.
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xiv. 120 He'll storm and threaten and stop the supplies for a month or so.
1885 Liverpool Daily Post 30 June 4/7 They storm like very demons when anyone ventures to hint that the Highland crofter is not the paragon of the human race.
1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xii. 108 I do not want to storm at the man.
b. quasi-transitive with complement.
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1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 286 Although..they may have put God from them—Disowned His prophets..and stormed His curses back to Him; yet..He can pity still.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xv. 335 Dick roused, struck him over the head with the butt, and stormed himself wide awake.
4. passive. To be exposed to the severity of the weather; to suffer severely from cold. Now dialect.
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c1440 York Myst. xiv. 16 And yf we here all nyght abide, We shall be stormed in þis steede.
c1636 Strafford in Browning Life (1892) 187 He was found dead..and in a cold night and lodging, stormed to death.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Storm'd, starved, pinched with cold.
5. transitive. To make (seed-hay) storm-proof by piling the sheaves in small stacks. local.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > make into stooks > storm-proof stooks
storm1862
1862 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 23 63 Ere it [the rain] arrives..several acres of his hay-seed are already in the field stack. Thus it is saved, by being stormed, as the local [Warwickshire] phrase well expresses it.
6.
a. Military. To make a vigorous assault on (a fortified position); to take or attempt to take by storm or assault.
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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > penetrate by force > storm or breach walls
brashc1565
force1591
embreach1610
storm1645
open1748
1645 O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches (1845) I. 227 By means of this entrance of Colonel Hammond they did storm the Fort on that part which was inward.
1646 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 54 The General Major of the horses wold haue the wallis of the citie stormit vpoun all quarteris.
1651 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 32 They stormed Dundie, and caried the towne.
1692 M. Prior Ode Imitation Horace 31 All Day to Mount the Trench, to Storm the Breach.
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 260 Several of their bravest officers were shot down in the act of storming the fortress.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §6. 49 Æthelred stormed the Danish camp at Benfleet.
b. transferred and figurative.
ΚΠ
1652 R. Loveday tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Hymen's Præludia: 1st Pt. 301 He basely resolves to storm her chastity.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 98 Thus People are stormed out of their Reason and Inclinations; plagued into a Compliance; and forced to yield in their own Defence.
1703 S. Sewall Diary 16 Mar. (1973) I. 483 So should we patiently..sing the Praises of God,..though Storm'd by the last efforts of Antichrist.
a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) xii. 414 The toothache has stormed my lower teeth so, that I think they are beginning to give way too.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xlix. 32 Here the bold peasant storm'd the dragon's nest.
1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 88 A hundred swords Will storm his heart, Love's fev'rous citadel.
1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond x She would have stormed Lady Jane Preston's door, and forced her way up-stairs.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 697 At last it seemed that heaven had been stormed by the violence of supplication: the truth came out, and many lies with it.
1910 Ld. Rosebery Chatham x. 220 Pitt had apparently determined, in the jargon of that day, to storm the Closet.
7. intransitive.
a. Military. To rush to an assault or attack.
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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (intransitive)] > rush to an attack
storm1632
society > armed hostility > attack > charge > [verb (intransitive)]
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reamc1275
shovec1400
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storm1632
1632 Swedish Intelligencer ii. 47 The Scots..forced the garrison into the inner port; they Storming in together with them.
1645 O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches (1845) I. 226 Colonel Montague and Colonel Pickering, who stormed at Lawford's Gate..presently entered.
1645 O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches (1845) I. 226 The Major-General's regiment being to storm towards Froom River.
1859 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 6 June in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) vii. 546 A great gap in the ramparts; it may have been a breach which was once stormed through.
1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) V. 207 Again the next day they stormed up to the walls.
1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold v. i. 145 Our javelins Answer their arrows. All the Norman foot Are storming up the hill.
b. transferred. To rush with violence.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > in hostile or harmful manner
invade1491
storm1837
inroad1878
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and violently
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fallOE
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rashOE
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. vii. 77 How, in this wild Universe, which storms in on him,..shall poor man find,..footing to stand on?
1863 H. W. Longfellow Student's Tale vi, in Tales Wayside Inn 35 The boy, rejoicing in his strength, Stormed down the terraces from length to length.
1870 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. v. 133 On placing the flame at some distance below the beam, the same dark masses stormed upwards.
Derivatives
stormed adj. taken by storm.
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society > armed hostility > defeat > [adjective] > captured
apprized1521
conquered1552
captured1796
stormed1841
1841 G. P. R. James Brigand ii The cold wind rushed in fiercely like a besieging army into a stormed city.
1888 E. A. Freeman Four Oxf. Lect. 95 It is our one recorded example of the fate of a stormed town.
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