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A valve permitting a fluid under pressure an easier avenue of escape than normally; specif., a valve, actuated by the governor, used in one system of marine-engine governing to connect both ends of the low-pressure cylinder as a supplementary control.

and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding. --Shunt"-wound` (#), a.

A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.

The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.

Having a siphuncle; siphunculated.

Of or pertaining to the siphuncle.

Having a siphuncle. Huxley.

Hung with spar, as a cave.

A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n. [U.S.]

The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt. [Obs.] The revenging gods 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend. Shak.

An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher.

omething resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness. The Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war. Dryden.

A burst of thunder.

A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity. "Thunderclaps that make them quake." Spenser. When suddenly the thunderclap was heard. Dryden.

A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder.

One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer. Pope.

A large European loach (Misgurnus fossilis).

rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, - - often appearing before a thunderstorm.

Emitting thunder. Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. J. Trumbull.

Without thunder or noise.