Word Meanings - UPTHUNDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To send up a noise like thunder. Coleridge.

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• THUNDERING
  1. Emitting thunder. Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. J. Trumbull. 2. Very great; -- often adverbially. -- Thun"der*ing*ly, adv.
• THUNDERER
  One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer. Pope.
• THUNDERSHOWER
  A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• THUNDERY
  Accompanied with thunder; thunderous. "Thundery weather." Pennant.
• THUNDERSTONE
  A belemnite. See Belemnite. (more info) 1. A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone. Fear no more the lightning flash, Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone. Shak.
• THUNDERCLOUD
  A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder.
• THUNDERSTRIKE
  1. To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle. drove before him, thunderstruck. Milton.
• NOISELESS
  Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. So noiseless would I live. Dryden. -- Noise"less*ly, adv. -- Noise"less*ness, n.
• THUNDERLESS
  Without thunder or noise.
• THUNDERSTORM
  A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• NOISEFUL
  Loud; clamorous. Dryden.
• THUNDERFISH
  A large European loach .
• THUNDERHEAD
  A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, - - often appearing before a thunderstorm.
• THUNDERBOLT
  A belemnite, or thunderstone. Thunderbolt beetle , a long-horned beetle whose larva bores in the trunk of oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and bluish-black, with W-shaped whitish or silvery markings on the elytra. (more info) 1. A shaft
• NOISETTE
  A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses
• THUNDER
  D. donder thunder, G. donner, OHG. donar, Icel. Thor, L. tonare to thunder, tonitrus thunder, Gr. tan to stretch. *52. See Thin, and cf. 1. The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity. 2. The
• THUNDERPROOF
  Secure against the effects of thunder or lightning.
• THUNDERBIRD
  An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush,
• THUNDERWORM
  A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbæna, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower.
• THUNDERBURST
  A burst of thunder.
• UPTHUNDER
  To send up a noise like thunder. Coleridge.
• CHINOISERIE
  Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.
• OUTNOISE
  To exceed in noise; to surpass in noisiness. Fuller.