Thunder /(?)/

Thun·der

Thunder

n.
  1. The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
  2. The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt. [Obs.]
    The revenging gods 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.
  3. Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.
  4. An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
    The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.

Phrases & Compounds
Thunder pumper
The croaker (Haploidontus grunniens).
Thunder rod
a lightning rod.
Thunder snake
The chicken, or milk, snake.
Thunder tube
a fulgurite. See Fulgurite.

Thunder

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Thundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Thundering

  1. To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.
    Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
    — Job xl. 9.
  2. Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.
    His dreadful voice no more Would thunder in my ears.
  3. To utter violent denunciation.

Thunder

v. t.
  1. To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.
    Oracles severe Were daily thundered in our general's ear.
    An archdeacon, as being a prelate, may thunder out an ecclesiastical censure.