Tempest

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To disturb as by a tempest.

II. Tempest ·vi To Storm.

III. Tempest ·noun A fashionable assembly; a drum. ·see the Note under Drum, ·noun, 4.

IV. Tempest ·noun Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.

V. Tempest ·noun An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.

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