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The missel thrush.

The storm petrel.

Abounding with storms. "The stormful east." Carlyle. -- Storm"ful*ness, 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.

In a stormy manner.

The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.

from Storm, v. Storming party (Mil.), a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.

Without storms. Tennyson.

A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow.

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.

The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.

p. p. of Starve. Chaucer.

uilding's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within. [Written also storey.]

One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller.

Being accustomed to tell stories. -- n.

One who writes short stories, as for magazines.

A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.

Wrested away. [Obs.] Bailey.

Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.