Thun"der , v. t. To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.
Oracles severe
Were daily thundered in our general's ear.
Dryden. An archdeacon, as being a prelate, may thunder out an ecclesiastical censure.
Ayliffe.
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.
Canst thou thunder with a voice
like him?
Job xl. 9. 2. Fig.: To make
a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.
His dreadful voice no more
Would thunder in my ears.
Milton.
3. To utter violent denunciation.
Thun"der (?), n. [OE.
þunder, þonder, þoner, AS. þunor; akin to þunian to stretch, to thunder, D.
donder thunder, G.
donner, OHG. donar, Icel. þōrr 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.
2.
The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
[Obs.]
The revenging gods
'Gainst
parricides did all their thunders bend.
Shak.
3. Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.
4. An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of
princes.
Prescott. Thunder pumper.
(Zoöl.) (a) The croaker (Haploidontus grunniens).
(b) The American bittern or stake-driver. -- Thunder rod, a lightning rod. [R.] -- Thunder snake. (Zoöl.)
(a) The chicken, or milk, snake. (b) A small reddish ground snake (Carphophis, or Celuta, amœna) native to the
Eastern United States; --
called also worm snake. -- Thunder
tube, a fulgurite. See Fulgurite.
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