thunderstone

A thunderbolt. "And, thus unbrac'd, Casca, as you see, Have bared my bosom to the thunder -stone." Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, i. 3. thunder-strike, v. t. *1. Lit .: To strike, blast, or injure by lightning, or as by lightning; to strike as with a thunderbolt. "The armaments which thunder- strike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake." Byron: Childe Harold, iv. 187. 2. Fig .: To astonish or strike dumb, as with something terrible. (Used only in the past participle.) "She stood as it were thunder -stricken with amazement."-Sidney: Arcadía , bk. iii. the like, proceeding from some high authority; a fulmination. "He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication." -Hake will : On Providence. (3) Something very dreadful, threatening, or as tonish ing. IMG:content-1087.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Bot . ( pl .): (1) Lychnis vesper tina; (2) Papaver rhœas; (3) Silene in flat a . 2. Her.: The thunderbolt is represented as a twisted bar in pale, inflamed at each end, surmounting two jagged darts in saltire, between two wings expanded, with streams of fire i uing from the center. 3. Palæont.: [BELEMNITE.] 4. Petrol .: A name frequently given to the nodules of mar casite (q. v.), which are abundant in the chalk form a IMG:content-1088.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1089.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Lit .: Struck, blasted, or injured by lightning. 2. Fig .: Amazed; struck dumb, as by something surprising or terrible suddenly presented to the mind or view. *thunder-thump, s. A thunderbolt. "Thou that throw est the thunder - thumps." Googe: Eglogs, iv.