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Lightning :: Lightning (n.) A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder..

Shatter :: Shatter (v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning..

Ceraunoscope :: Ceraunoscope (n.) An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning.

Fulgurate :: Fulgurate (v. i.) To flash as lightning.

Lighten :: Lighten (v. t.) To emit or disclose in, or as in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning..

Leven :: Leven (n.) Lightning.

Thundershower :: Thundershower (n.) A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.

Conductor :: Conductor (n.) A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod..

Lighten :: Lighten (v. i.) To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash..

Thundercloud :: Thundercloud (n.) A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder..

Keraunograph :: Keraunograph (n.) A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere.

Paratonnerre :: Paratonnerre (n.) A conductor of lightning; a lightning rod.

Thunderbolt :: Thunderbolt (n.) A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth..

Wildfire :: Wildfire (n.) A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder.

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) Lightning; a thunderbolt.

Thunderbolt :: Thunderbolt (n.) Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.

Thunderstorm :: Thunderstorm (n.) A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.

Paragrele :: Paragrele (n.) A lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms..

Fulgurite :: Fulgurite (n.) A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge..

Lightning :: Lightning (vb. n.) Lightening.

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