Definition of tempest

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Tempest (n.) A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4..

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Welter :: Welter (n.) A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest..
Lower :: Lower (v. i.) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest..
Tempest :: Tempest (n.) Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions..
Tempestuous :: Tempestuous (a.) Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate..
Surmark :: Surly (a.) Rough; dark; tempestuous.
Rugged :: Rugged (n.) Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude.
Tempest :: Tempest (v. t.) To disturb as by a tempest.
Tempest :: Tempest (v. i.) To storm.
Intempestivity :: Intempestivity (n.) Unseasonableness; untimeliness.
Intempestive :: Intempestive (a.) Out of season; untimely.
Windiness :: Windiness (n.) The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season..
Height :: Height (n.) Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest..
Storming :: Storminess (n.) The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
Windy :: Windy (superl.) Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather..
Ravage :: Ravage (n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time..
Bellow :: Bellow (v.) To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound..
Intempestively :: Intempestively (adv.) Unseasonably.
Hard :: Hard (adv.) With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard..
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