Here's neither buſh, nor ſhrub to beare off any vveather at all: and anotherStorme brevving, I heare it ſing ith' vvinde: yond ſame blacke cloud, yond huge one, lookes like a foule bumbard that vvould ſhed his licquor:[…]
1677,Tho[mas] Herbert,Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great.[…], 4th edition, London:[…]R. Everingham, for R. Scot, T. Basset,J[ohn] Wright, and R. Chiswell,→OCLC,page11:
[D]uring this late tuffon, lightning vvas ſeen to fall and hang like fire, ſometimes to skip to and fro about the Yards and Tackling of our Ships.[…] [S]ome callHermes fire;SaintElmo others;[…] vvithall believing, that vvhen tvvo are ſeen, they foretelHalcyon vveather and ſafety; if one, it imports danger; but three threatenſtorms and ſhipvvrack.Sed non ego credulus illis [But I am not credulous of them], vvell-knovving that theſe Meteors are no other than natural Exhalations.
Whenstorm is on the heights, and right and left / Suck'd from the dark heart of the long hills roll / The torrents, dash'd to the vale: and yet her will / Bred will in me to overcome it or fall.
Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust]storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
(meteorology) A disturbed state of the atmosphere between asevere or stronggale and ahurricane on themodernBeaufort scale, with a windspeed of between 89 and 102kilometres perhour (55–63miles per hour; 10 on thescale, known as a "storm" or whole gale), or of between 103 and 117 kilometres per hour (64–72 miles per hour; 11 on the scale, known as a "violent storm").
Adrastus firſt aduanſt his creſt aloft, / And boldly gan a ſtrong ſcalado reare, / And through the fallingſtorme did vpward clime / Of ſtones, dartes, arrovves, fire, pitch and lime:[…]
1667,John Milton, “Book VI”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC, lines544–546:
[F]or this day will pour down, / If I conjecture aught, no drizling ſhowr, / But ratlingſtorm of Arrows barbd with fire.
I will not cease to grasp the hope I hold / Of saintdom, and to clamour, mourn and sob, / Battering the gates of heaven withstorms of prayer, / Have mercy, Lord, and take away my sin.
VVhiles I in Ireland nouriſh a mightie Band, / I vvill ſtirre vp in England ſome blackStorme, / Shall blovve then thouſand Soules to Heauen, or Hell:[…]
1613,Francis Bacon, “A.D. 1613, July–December. Ætat. 53. The Charge of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, His Majesty’s Attorney-General, Touching Duels;[…].”, inJames Spedding, editor,The Works of Francis Bacon,[…]: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon[…], volume IV, London:Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published1858,→OCLC,page400:
[When] private men begin once to presume to give law to themselves, and to right their own wrongs, no man can foresee the dangers and inconveniences that may arise and multiply thereupon. It may cause suddenstorms in Court, to the disturbance of his Majesty, and unsafety of his person.
But they were all speedily thrown into the shade by two younger Whigs [Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax andJohn Somers, 1st Baron Somers], who, on this great day, took their seats for the first time, who soon rose to the highest honors of the state, who weathered together the fierceststorms of faction,[…]
Pa told me, only yesterday morning, (and dreadfully unhappy he is) that he couldn't weather thestorm.[…] I should like to make out how Pais to weather thestorm. I declare if I was Pa, I'd run away!
[W]as there euer any thing proiected, that fauoured any vvay of nevvneſſe or renevving, but the ſame endured many aſtorme of gaine-ſaying, or oppoſition?
Theſe, and a thouſand mixt emotions more, / From ever-changing vievvs of good and ill, / Form'd infinitely various, vex the mind / VVith endleſsſtorm:[…]
[Y]et a moment, and once more / The trumpet, and again: at which thestorm / Of galloping hoofs bare on the ridge of spears / And riders front to front, until they closed / In the middle with the crash of shivering points, / And thunder.
He betrayed, however, no sign of fear or of shame, and faced thestorm of invective which burst upon him for bar, bench, and witness box, with the insolence of despair.
He ſvvet and ſvvet againe vvith ſuch exceſſiue ſvvoonings, as not only himſelfe, but likevviſe all the beholders, did verily deeme, that his life vvas ending. Thisſtorme and miſhappe endured about ſome tvvo hovvres, after vvhich hee remayned not cured as his Maſter, but ſo vveary and indiſpoſed, as hee vvas not able to ſtand.
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Thenoun is derived from verbetymology 2 sense 2.3 (“to violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it”).[2]
We all like to see people seasick when we are not, ourselves. Playing whist by the cabin lamps when it isstorming outside, is pleasant; walking the quarter-deck in the moonlight, is pleasant;[…] but these are all feeble and commonplace compared with the joy of seeing people suffering the miseries of seasickness.
And dovvne I laid to liſt the ſad tun'd tale, / Ere long eſpied a fickle maid full pale / Tearing of papers breaking rings a tvvaine, /Storming her vvorld vvith ſorrovves, vvind and raine.
The driver turned in the saddle to see if there were any chance of capturing the revolver and ending the ride. Dick roused, struck him over the head with the butt, andstormed himself wide awake.
The assailants were repulsed in their first attack, and several of their bravest officers were shot down in the act ofstorming the fortress, sword in hand.
1974, K. S. Karol, “The August of the Ultra-Left”, in Mervyn Jones, transl.,The Second Chinese Revolution[…], New York, N.Y.:Hill and Wang,→OCLC,page278:
The crowd was patient and never dreamed ofstorming Chungnanhai (which could scarcely have resisted a mass assault) and the most battle-tested groups made no attempt to send their commandos to kidnap the “highest leader.” Calm—if one may use the word—prevailed, and the group leaders were content to lead their followers in chanting slogans againstLiu [Shaoqi] and quotations fromMao [Zedong]. The Chairman, like Vice-ChairmanLin Piao, had been away on a tour of inspection in the provinces since early July; at the time of the siege of Chungnanhai, he was in Wuhan.
My harueſte haſts to ſtirre vp winter ſterne, / And bids him clayme with rigorous rage hys right. / So nowe heſtormes with many a ſturdy ſtoure, / So now his bluſtring blaſt echecoſte doth ſcoure.
FromShetland ſtradling vvide, his [Boreas's] foote onThuly ſets: / VVhenceſtorming, all the vaſtDeucalidon hee threts, / And beares his boyſtrous vvaues into the narrovver mouth / Of theVerginian Sea:[…]
1677,Tho[mas] Herbert,Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great.[…], 4th edition, London:[…]R. Everingham, for R. Scot, T. Basset,J[ohn] Wright, and R. Chiswell,→OCLC,page11:
[A]fter a ſhort calm vve obſerved the Ocean firſt to ferment and heave, and then to vvrinkle her ſmooth face, and veering into a contrary romp at length to pull and bluſter, yea next day toſtorm ſo outrageouſly, that the Sea men themſelves to my apprehenſion, had ſome fear,[…]
A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as westormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
(by extension, chiefly military) To move quickly in thecourse of an assault on a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.
To be in a violenttemper; to use harsh language; tofume, torage.
[T]he prieſts of the countrey cluſtering togither, began to grudge andſtorme againſt Tindall [William Tyndale], rauing againſt him in alehouſes and other places.
It often happens, that servants sent on messages are apt to stay out somewhat longer than the message requires,[…] when you return, the masterstorms, the lady scolds; stripping, cudgelling, and turning off is the word. But here you ought to be provided with a set of excuses, enough to serve on all occasions:[…]
I do not want tostorm at the man who made her life so burdensome. Too many years have passed for that, nor would Nanny take it kindly if I called her man names.
Unlike Englishstorm, the Dutch word is not associated with rainfall. Astorm may, of course, be accompanied by rainfall, but the word as such refers only to strong winds.
Istorm på Biskaya gick skeppeti kvav, skeppet han segla' [seglade], Kalle Teodor, och därförså vilar han nu i sin grav,vaggad av sjögräs, Kalle Teodor. Men en stormnatt kan du höra nån som ropar: Hej hå! Ifrån havets djup det kommer, och det låter så: Hej hå! Hej hå!
Instormy weather in Biscay, the ship went down, the ship he was sailing, Kalle Teodor, and therefore he now rests in his grave, cradled ["rocked" (like in a cradle), but works as a translation] by seaweed, Kalle Teodor. But on a stormy night you can hear someone calling: Hey ho! From the ocean depths ["the sea's depth(s)" – intuitively "depth," though the plural is identical – singular is idiomatic in "dras ner i djupet" (be pulled into the depths [depth]), for example] it comes, and it sounds like that: Hey ho! Hey ho! [Or "and it sounds like so," but that is an idiomatic way of saying "and it sounds like that," whereas "and it sounds like this" would normally be put as "och det låter så här." The official lyrics have a colon.]
segla istorm
sail instormy weather / a storm [depending on what fits the context best]
blåsa upp tillstorm
be a storm brewing / coming / blowing up [with the wind picking up]
D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “storm”, inGweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke,et al., editors (1950–present), “storm”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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