storm (storm)

[ E. stour3, a tumult, stir) Ir. Gael. stoirm = Bret. stourm, a storm, all And there arose a great storm of wind. Mark iv. 37. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitile storm . Shak ., Lear, iii. 4. 29. 2. Specifically- (a) Technically, in nautical use, a wind of force 11 on the Beaufort scale, being that in which a man-of-war could carry only storm-staysails. The wind suddenly shifted in a heavy rain squall from SSE. to W., and increased to a storm ; at 12 noon the barometer read lowest, and the wind was blowing a storm . Monthly Weather Review (1887), p. 40. (b) A fall of snow. (c) A prolonged frost. [Prov. Eng.] Hence, figuratively-3. A tempestuous flight or descent of objects fiercely hurled: as, a storm of mi iles. IMG:content-2217.png:[blocks in formation] alba; when adult, it is pure-white with black-tipped wings and reddish bill and feet; it is about 34 feet long, and stands 4 feet high. The black stork of the same country is C. nigra, a rarer species. Various birds of different countries, technically storks, are known by other names, as adjutant, marabou, maguari, jabiru, shell - ibis, and wood - ibis. See these words, and cuts under adjutant bird, Ciconiidæ, Grallæ, jabiru, open bill, Pelargomorphæ, simbil, and Tantalus. - Black-necked stork, Xenorhyn chus australis, of India and Australia, related to the Amer. ican jabiru and African saddle-billed stork, the three being often placed in the genus Mycteria. - Black stork, See def. Episcopal stork, Di our a episcopus. See cut under Pelargomorpha. Giant stork, the adjutant-bird. -Hair-crested stork, Lep top til us ( Cranopelargus ) ja Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 702. vanicus, a small and quite distinct species of marabou, re This is storial sooth, it is no fable. IMG:content-2218.png:[blocks in formation] stork. See def. lated to the adjutant, found in parts of India, Java, Sumatra, etc.-Maguari stork, Euxenura maguari. See maguari.- Marabou stork. See marabou, and cut un der adjutant - bird.-Pouched stork. Same as adjutant bird. Saddle-billed stork, Ephippiorhynchus senega lens is. See the generic name. - White-bellied stork, Sphenorhynchus abdimi. See cut under simbil. - White stork-billed (stôrk'bild), a. Having a bill like a stork's, as a kingfisher of the genus Pelargop sis. See cut under Pelargopsis. stork's-bill (stôrks'bil), n. 1. A plant of the genus Erodium, particularly the heron's-bill, E. ci cutarium (also called hemlock stork's - bill ), low bushy herb with pinnate leaves, a mostly Old World plant, abundantly naturalized in many parts of the United States, perhaps indigenous in the west. See al file rill a. 2. A plant of the related genus Pelargo nium, which includes the geraniums, etc., of gardens. Flowering Plant of Stork's-bill ( Erodium cicutarium). a, one of the carpels. extremity of adversity or disaster. Having pa ed many bitter brunts and blastes of venge a unce, they dread no stormes of Fortune. Spenser , Shep. Cal., February, Embleme. An old man, broken with the storms of state. Shak., Hen. VIII., iv. 2. 21. 6. A vehement or pa ionate outbreak, as of some emotion, or of the expre ion of such emotion: as, a storm of indignation; a storm of applause; a storm of hi es. Mark'd you not how her sister Began to scold and raise up such a storm ? Shak., T. of the S., i. 1. 177. Her bosom shaken with a sudden storm of sighs. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 7. Milit., a violent a ault on a fortified place or strong position; a dashing attempt by troops to capture a fortified place, as by scaling the walls or forcing the gates. How by storm the walls were won, Or how the victor sacked and burnt the town. Dryden . caused by a Cyclonic storm, one that accompanies or is c the calm region at the center of a violent cyclonic storm, where the clouds clear away and blue sky appears-occur- ring mostly in the tropics, but also experienced more or le perfectly in higher latitudes. This phenomenon is due to the circumstance that the winds immediately bor- dering the central area blow circularly around it, leaving a region of calm. The centrifugal force of the wind inten- sifies the diminution of pre ure, and develops a tendency toward a gently descending current from above, and a con- sequent clearing of the sky. - High-area storm, a stor a ociated with an area of high pre ure. Low-area storm. Same as cyclonic storm. - Magnetic, revolving, etc., storm. See the adjectives. - Storm and stre (a translation of the German Sturm und Drang , alluding to a drama by Klinger, "Sturm und Drang"], a name given to a period in German literary history (about 1770 to 1790) influenced by a group of younger writers whose works were characterized by pa ion and reaction from the old meth- ods; hence, a proverbial phrase for unrest or agitation.- To take by storm. (a) Milit ., to carry by a ault. See def. 7. The recollection of the victory of Roanoke imparted to the Federals that a urance which is a great element of succe ; they knew that a battery could be taken by storm . Comte de Paris , Civil War in America (trans.), I. 587. (b) To captivate or carry away by surprising or delighting: as, the new singer has taken the town by storm.Wind-storm, a storm with heavy wind, without precipitation. Syn. 1. Tempest , etc. See wind2 . IMG:content-2219.jpg:[blocks in formation] the spring, often with the new year, in blowing showery weather, which makes the inhabitants of Hampshire call it the storm -cock. storm (stôrm), v. [ AS . styrman = D. MLG. LG. stormen = OHG. sturman, MHG. G. stürmen = Icel. styrma = Sw. storm a = Dan. storme , storm; cf. It. stor- mire, make a noise, noise, storm egg i are, ring the storm-bell, throng together; from the noun.] als I. in trans. 1. To blow with great force; also, to rain, hail, snow, or sleet, eet, especially with violence: used impersonally: nally: as, it storms . - 2. To fume; scold; rage; be in a violent agi- tation or pa ion; raise a tempest. 2. The green woodpecker, Gecinus virid is. [Prov. Eng. in all uses.] storm-cone (storm'kōn), n . A cone consisting of tarred canvas extended on a frame 3 feet high and 3 feet wide at the base, used either alone or along with the drum as a storm-signal. See cut under storm - signal . [Eng.] storm-current (storm'kurent), n. A surface in a storm. Such a current frequently outruns its gen- erating storm, and affords the first announcement thereof on a distant shore by increasing there the intensity of the usual current or by changing its set. Who first shall storm the breach, or mount the wall. Add is on, To the King. storm-area (storm'ārē-a), n. The area cov- ered by a storm; the region within the closed isobars surrounding a center of low pre ure. In the United States this region is generally an oval whose length is, on the average, nearly twice its width. Its longest diameter may be turned in any azimuth, but is most frequently directed to a point between north and north 60° east. Over the ocean storm-areas are generally IMG:content-2220.png:[blocks in formation] tional door for protection against inclement weather: in general used temporarily, for the IMG:content-2221.jpg:[merged small][merged small][graphic] sententes and used in the United States, and a cone and drum in Great Britain. In the practice of the United States Weather Bureau, a red flag with black center is displayed by day when a violent storm is ex- pected, and an additional pennant indicates the quad- rant of the probable wind-di- rection, as follows: red pen- nant above flag, northeaster- ly winds; red pennant below flag, southeasterly winds; white pennant above flag, northwesterly winds; white pennant below flag, south- westerly winds. By winds, and a white light above a red light indicates westerly winds. In the Brit- ish system the inverted cone indicates a south gale, the south. English Storm -signal, indicating dangerous winds from the winter only. storm-drum (storm'drum), n. A cylinder of tarred canvas extended on a hoop 3 feet high and 3 feet wide, hoisted in conjunction with the cone as a storm-signal. See storm-signal. [Eng.] stormer (stôr'mer), n. [ mil it . ), a member of an a aulting party. storm-finch (storm'finch), n. See finch1 , and cut under petrel . storm-flag (stôrm'flag), n. See storm-signal. storm-to ed (stôrm'tost), a. To ed about by stormful (storm'fül), a. [ They know what spirit brews the stormful day. Collins, Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands. storm-stone (stôrm'stōn), n . bolt . being stormful; stormy character or condition. Cole ridge . storm-gla (storm'glas), n. A hermetically sealed tube containing an alcoholic solution of camphor, together with crystals of nitrate of pot- ash and ammonium chlorid: so named because an increase in the amount of the precipitate was supposed to indicate the approach of stormy weather. The changes in the amount of the precipitate are due solely to variations of temperature, and the instru- ment is simply a chemical thermoscope. storm-house (storm'hous), n. A temporary shelter for men employed in constructing guarding railroads, or other works in exposed situations. stormily (stor'mi-li), adv . In a stormy man- ner; tempestuously. stormine (stôr'mi-nes), n. The state of being stormy, or of being agitated or visited by vio- lent winds; tempestuousne ; impetuousne ; storming-party (stor'ming-pär"ti), n. Milit ., the party to whom is a igned the duty of mak- ing the first a ault in storming an enemy's works. storm-kite (stôrm'kīt), n. A device, on the principle of a kite, for carrying a rope from a ship to the shore in a storm. stormle (stôrm'les), a. [ -le .] Free from storms; without storm. Our waking thoughts Suffer a stormle shipwreck in the pools Of sullen slumber. Tennyson, Harold, v. 1. storm-pane (storm'pān), n. An extra square of gla fitted in a frame provided with clamps, used to fit over a window in an exposed build- ing, as a lighthouse, in case of breakage. storm-path (storm'path), n. Same as storm- storm-pavement (stôrm'pāv"ment), n. In hy- draul. eng in ., a sloping stone pavement lining the sea-face of a pier or breakwater. Knight . storm-petrel (stôrm'pet"rel), n. A small black- ish petrel, belonging to the genus Pro cellar i a as now restricted, or to one of a few closely related genera, as Oceanites, Cymochorea, and Halocyptena. The three best-known storm-petrels are Pro cellar i a pelagic a , Cymochorea leucorrhoa , and Oceanites oceanic us. All are also called Mother Carey's chickens. See cut under petrel . The form stormy petrel is also com- a radial to an approximately circular path, and increasing in force as the center is approached. The center itself is an area of comparative calm, accompanied by a partial or complete clearing away of the clouds, and a mild tem- perature. (See eye of a storm , under storm.) Violent ocean storms frequently exemplify this typical description; but in land storms, which present irregularities of all kinds, these conditions are in general only partially realized. storms or stre of weather. storm-circle (stôrm'sėr"kl), n . Same as storm -storm-sail (stôrm'sāl), n . A sail made of very card. storm-wind (storm'wind), n. The wind or blast of a storm or tempest; a hurricane; also, a wind that brings a storm. Then comes, with an awful roar, Gathering and sounding on, The storm - wind from Labrador, The wind Euroclydon, The storm - wind ! stormy (stôr'mi), a. [ mig (= D. Sw. stormig = MHG. sturmic, G. stür- mig ), storm , storm: see storm .] 1. Charac- terized by storm or tempest, or by high winds; tempestuous; boisterous: as, a stormy season. No cloudy show of stormy blustering weather Doth yet in his fair welkin once appear. For love is yet the moste stormy lyf, Right of hymself, that ever was begonne. Chaucer , Troilus, ii. 778. His [Warren Hastings's] administration, so eventful and stormy, closed in almost perfect quiet. Macaulay , Warren Hastings. 3. Violent; pa ionate; easily roused to anger or strife. The lives of all your loving complices Lean on your health; the which, if you give o'er To stormy pa ion, must perforce decay. Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., i. 1. 165. The stormy chiefs of a desert but extensive domain. Scott . 4. A ociated with storms, as seen in them or supposed to presage them: specifically, in or- nithology, noting certain petrels.- Stormy pet- rel. Same as storm - petrel . = Syn. 1. Windy, gusty, squally, blustering. See wind2 . storm-zone (stôrm'zōn), n. Same as storm - belt . The regions between 40° and 70° latitude are the great storm zones of the world. R. Hinman , Eclectic Physical Geography, p. 94. stornello (stôr-nel'lō), n.; pl. stornelli (-li). [It.] A form of Italian folk-song, usually improvised and either sentimental or satirical. stornello The Tuscan and Umbrian stornello is much shorter (than the rispetto), consisting, indeed, of a hemistich naming some natural object which suggests the motive of the little poem. Encyc. Brit., XIX. 272.