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Storm [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. [G., to disturb. Latin The primary sense of storm is a rushing, raging or violent agitation.[

2. A violent wind; a tempest. Thus a storm of wind, is correct language, as the proper sense of the word is rushing, violence. It has primarily no reference to a fall of rain or snow. But as a violent wind is often attended with rain or snow, the word storm has come to be used, most improperly, for a fall of rain or snow without wind.

3. O beat those storms, and roll the seas in vain.

4. A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter ad take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates and the like.

5. Violent civil or political commotion; sedition; insurrection; also, clamor; tumult; disturbance of the public peace.

6. I will stir up in England some black storms.

7. Her sister began to scold and raise up such a storm--

8. Affliction; calamity; distress; adversity.

9. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate.

10. Violence; vehemence; tumultuous force.

Storm [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To raise a tempest.

2. To blow with violence; impersonally; as, it storms.

3. To rage; to be in a violent agitation of passion; to fume. The master storms.

Storm [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To assault; to attack and attempt to take by scaling the walls, forcing gates or breaches and the like; as, to storm a fortified town.

Storm [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.

3. A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.

4. A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.

Storm [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To raise a tempest.

2. To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.

3. To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.

Storm [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.

Storm-beat [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Beaten or impaired by storms.

Storm-beat [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms.

Stormcock [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The missel thrush.

2. The fieldfare.

3. The green woodpecker.

Stormed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Assaulted by violence.

Stormed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Storm

Stormfinch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The storm petrel.

Stormful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Abounding with storms.

Stormglass [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.

Stormily [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a stormy manner.

Storminess [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Tempestuousness; the state of being agitated by violent winds.

Storminess [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.

Storming [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Attacking with violent force; raging.

Storming Webster's Dictionary 1913

a. & n. from Storm, v.

Storming [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Storm

Stormless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Without storms.

Storms Encyclopedia Britannica

STORMS. See Meteorology, vol. xvi. p. 154.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 578
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Stormwind [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm.

Stormy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Tempestuous; agitated with furious winds; boisterous; as a stormy season; a stormy day or week.

2. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as a stormy sound; stormy shocks.

3. Violent; passionate. [Unusual.]

Stormy [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.

2. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.

3. Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions.

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Job 21:18

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Job 27:21

The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Job 30:22

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.

Job 36:33

The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.

The thunder declares His presence; even the cattle regard the rising storm.

Psalms 18:11

He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

Psalms 55:8

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”

Psalms 83:15

So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.

Psalms 107:25

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.

Psalms 107:29

He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

Psalms 148:8

Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word:

lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,

Proverbs 1:27

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Isaiah 4:6

And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.

Isaiah 25:4

For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

Isaiah 28:2

Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.

Isaiah 29:6

Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.

Isaiah 30:30

And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.

Isaiah 32:2

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.

Isaiah 54:11

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Isaiah 57:20

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.

Jeremiah 23:19

Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.