thunder tube

A fulgurite (q. v.). thăn dêr, v. i. & t. [THUNDER, 8. ] A. Intransitive: I. Lit .: To make thunder; to produce the noise of thunder. (Often used impersonally; as, It thun dered yesterday.) "The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave His voice." -Psalm xviii. 18. II. Figuratively : 1. To make a loud noise like thunder, particularly a loud, continued noise. "Loud clamors shake the shore. The horses thunder ; earth and ocean roar!" Pope: Homer's Iliad, xxiv. 405. 2. To utter loud denunciations or threatenings; to cry out loudly. "The orators on the other side thundered against sinful a ociations." - Macaulay : Hist. Eng . , ch. xiii. B. Transitive : 1. To emit as with the sound of thunder; to utter or i ue by way of threat or denunciation; to denounce loudly. "Who thunders to his captives blood and death." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. III., ii. 1.