Word Meanings - WINDSTORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.

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• STORMING
  from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• STORMGLASS
  A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
• STORM
  A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like. Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging,
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• STORMINESS
  The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
• STORMILY
  In a stormy manner.
• STORM-BEAT
  Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• STORMWIND
  A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow.
• STORMFINCH
  The storm petrel.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• STORMLESS
  Without storms. Tennyson.
• STORMCOCK
  The missel thrush. The fieldfare. The green woodpecker.
• STORMY
  1. Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week. "Beyond the stormy Hebrides." Milton. 2. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury;
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• STORMFUL
  Abounding with storms. "The stormful east." Carlyle. -- Storm"ful*ness, n.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• WINDSTORM
  A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.
• THUNDERSTORM
  A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• HAILSTORM
  A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail.
• OUTSTORM
  To exceed in storming. Insults the tempest and outstorms the skies. J. Barlow.
• SNOWSTORM
  A storm with falling snow.