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Producing thunder. [R.] How he before the thunderous throne doth lie. Milton.

Secure against the effects of thunder or lightning.

A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.

A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone. Fear no more the lightning flash, Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone. Shak.

A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.

with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle. drove before him, thunderstruck. Milton.

ied to Amphisbæna, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower.

Accompanied with thunder; thunderous. [R.] "Thundery weather." Pennant.

Thunderous; sonorous. "Scraps of thunderous epic." Tennyson.

The tunny. [R.]

A hanger-on to noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady. See 1st Tuft, 3. [Cant, Eng.] Halliwell.

The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities. [Cant, Eng.]

Resting on a track at the bottom, instead of being suspended; - - said of a sliding door. Forney.

Of an automobile body, suspended from the springs in such a manner that the frame of the chassis is below the axles, the object being to lower the center of gravity of the car.

To send up a noise like thunder. [R.] Coleridge.

One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune. Addison.

An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites Ægyptiaca), and sold to piligrims for a healing ointment. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

In each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", etc.

ct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price. Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds. Fuller.

g modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung. Earle.