3. To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.

The master storms, the lady scolds.

Swift.

Storm"-beat` (?), a. Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser.

Storm"cock` (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) The missel thrush. (b) The fieldfare.

(c) The green woodpecker.

Storm"finch` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The storm petrel.

Storm"ful (?), a. Abounding with storms. "The stormful east." Carlyle.

-- Storm"ful*ness, n.

Storm"glass` (?), n. 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"i*ly (?), adv. In a stormy manner.

Storm"i*ness, n. The state of being stormy; tempestuousness;

biosteruousness; impetuousness.

Storm"ing, a. & n. from Storm, v.

Storming party (Mil.), a party assigned to the duty of making the first

assault in storming a fortress.

Storm"less, a. Without storms. Tennyson.

Storm"wind` (?), n. A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast

of a storm. Longfellow.

Storm"y (?), a. [Compar. Stormier (?); superl. Stormiest.] 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; as, a stormy sound;

stormy shocks.

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