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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.

Something 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.

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.

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

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

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