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Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather. Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea. M. Arnold.

uiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.

To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.

o part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster.

slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun. Byron. Long, open panegyric drags at best. Gay.

Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth.

Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.

cate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. Pope.

Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.

ct as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.

sume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced. Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there. Dryden.

An applicant for admission. Stormonth.

aining to the time when the sun enters the equinoctial points; as, an equinoctial gale or storm, that is, one happening at or near the time of the equinox, in any part of the world. Equinoctial colure (Astron.), the meridian passing through the equinoctial points. -- Equinoctial line (Astron.), the celestial equator;…

ox, Vernal equinox, under Autumnal and Vernal. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Stormwind of the equinox. Longfellow.

Pertaining to the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry. Stormonth.

pe; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Ps. lv. 8.

To vanish. Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. Burns.

To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.

to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. Pope. Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams. B. Taylor.

A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration. Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw. Milton. Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn. Tennyson.