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ce: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear. The thunderlike percussion of thy sounds. Shak.

g which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.

prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous. [Obs. or R.] Spenser. It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky. Sir T. Browne.

arrows to be carried on the person. Reside him hung his bow And quiver, with three-bolted thunder stored. Milton.

. Three vessels under sail, and one at anchor, above Split Rock, and behind it the radeau Thunderer. W. Irving.

The upper air; the sky; the heavens. [Obs.] Anon the dreadful thunder Doth rend the region. Shak.

plit; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak. The dreadful thunder Doth rend the region. Shak.

the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral. That fear Comes thundering back, with dreadful revolution, On my defenseless head. Milton.

To strive to equal or exel; to emulate. To rival thunder in its rapid course. Dryden.

To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls. To roll about, to gad abroad. [Obs.] Man shall not suffer his wife go roll about. Chaucer.

To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore. Surrey. The people cried and rombled up and down. Chaucer.

To have a smell. [Obs.] Thunderbolts . . . do scent strongly of brimstone. Holland.

Armed scythes, as a chariot. Chariots scythed, On thundering axles rolled. Glover.

(Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light. And the thunder, Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts. Milton. Some kinds of literary pursuits . . . have been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule. V. Knox.

Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded. Like distant thunder on a shiny day. Dryden.

andbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest. Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break. Shak.

or keep unused; to save. "No cost would he spare." Chaucer. [Thou] thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare. Milton. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. Prov. xvii. 27.

A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not. We hear this fearful tempest sing, Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm. Shak.

The god of thunder, and son of Odin.

A stroke; a blow. [Obs.] Nor shield defend the thunder of his throws. Spenser.