THUNDER
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Thun"der (?), n. [OE. þunder, þonder, þoner, AS. þunor; akin to þunian to stretch, to thunder, D. donder thunder, G. donner, OHG. donar, Icel. þ&ō;rr Thor, L. tonare to thunder, tonitrus thunder, Gr. to`nos a stretching, straining, Skr. tan to stretch. √52. See Thin, and cf. Astonish, Detonate, Intone, Thursday, Tone.] 1. The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
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2. The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt. [Obs.]
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The revenging gods
'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.
Shak.
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3. Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.
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4. An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
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The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
Prescott.
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Thunder pumper. (Zo&ö;l.) (a) The croaker (Haploidontus grunniens). (b) The American bittern or stake-driver. -- Thunder rod, a lightning rod. [R.] -- Thunder snake. (Zo&ö;l.) (a) The chicken, or milk, snake. (b) A small reddish ground snake (Carphophis amœna syn. Celuta amœna) native to the Eastern United States; -- called also worm snake. -- Thunder tube, a fulgurite. See Fulgurite.
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Thun"der (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Thundered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Thundering.] [AS. þunrian. See Thunder, n.] 1. To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.
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Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
Job xl. 9.
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2. Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.
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His dreadful voice no more
Would thunder in my ears.
Milton.
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3. To utter violent denunciation.
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Thun"der, v. t. To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.
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Oracles severe
Were daily thundered in our general's ear.
Dryden.
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An archdeacon, as being a prelate, may thunder out an ecclesiastical censure.
Ayliffe.
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