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To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

te of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

on in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

ith blows; to assail a city with artillery. No rude noise mine ears assailing. Cowper. No storm can now assail The charm he wears within. Keble.

that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc. But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire. Milton.

interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.

n down, to fasten down with battens, as the tarpaulin over the hatches of a ship during a storm.

h against, or strike, as with water or wind. A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. Milton.

deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular in his behavior. Steele. To be upon one's good behavior, To be put upon one's good behavior, to be in a state of trial, in which something important dep…

e; with the most success, case, profit, benefit, or propriety. Had we best retire I see a storm. Milton. Had I not best go to her Thackeray.

dicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.

undergo. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Shak.

Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress. Till storm and driving ice blockade him there. Wordsworth.

To talk loudly; to boast; to storm. [Colloq.] You blow behind my back, but dare not say anything to my face. Bartlett. To blow hot and cold Etym: (a saying derived from a fable of , to favor a thing at one time and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose. -- To blow off, to let steam escap…

ence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton.

Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak.

Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy. The waters swell before a boisterous storm. Shak. The brute and boisterous force of violent men. Milton.

To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind. An old man, broken with the storms of state. Shak.

To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves. The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer. Wirt. To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.