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A sudden flash of light or splendor. Swift as the lightning glance. Milton.

Shooting, as light. When through the gancing lightnings fly. Rowe.

To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light. Every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire. Milton.

A sudden flash; transient luster. LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran. Milton.

reme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively. Like the smoke in a hurricane whirl'd. Tennyson. Each guilty thought to me is A dreadful hurricane. Massinger. Hurricane bird (Zoöl.), the fri…

bt; the room is in darkness; to live in fear. When shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain Shak.

A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere. -- Ker`au-nog"ra-phy, n.

Lightning. [Obs.] Wild thunder dint and fiery leven. Chaucer.

Lightning. [Obs.] Spenser. Levin brand, a thunderbolt. [Obs.] Spenser.

To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash. This dreadful night, That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars As doth the lion. Shak.

d is sometimes used in the manufacture of fireworks, and the artificial representation of lightning.

A species of divination by meteors, chiefly by thunder and lightning, which was held in high estimation by the Romans.

A lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms. [France] Knight.

A conductor of lightning; a lightning rod.

womb. The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. Ray. And keener lightnings quicken in her eye. Pope. When the pale and bloodless east began To quicken to the sun. Tennyson.

udden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak. The dreadful thunder Doth rend the region. Shak.

e riding at anchor or when hove to on the open sea; as, to ride out the gale. to ride the lightning, (Colloq.) to be executed by electrocution in an electric chair.

A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of lightning; a fulgurite.

, or Prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels; the archfiend. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke x. 18.

as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light. And the thunder, Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts. Milton. Some kinds of literary pursuits . . . have been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule. V. Knox.