Part 831

Storms beat, and rolls the main; O! beat those storms, and roll the seas, in vain.

Pope.

What at first was called a gust, the same Hath now a storm's, anon a tempest's name.

Donne.

Storm (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stormed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Storming.] (Mil.) To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.

Storm, v. i. [Cf. AS. styrman.] 1. To raise a tempest. Spenser.

2. To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.

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.

3. Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions.

Stormy chiefs of a desert but extensive domain.

Sir W. Scott.

||Stor"thing (?), n. [Norw. storting; stor great + ting court, court of ||justice; cf. Dan. ting, thing.] The Parliament of Norway, chosen by ||indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.

Stor"ven (?), obs. p. p. of Starve. Chaucer.