Search for: STORMS
3801 Etymology dictionary, p. bound (adj.1).3
… as storm-bound, "kept by storms from leafing a place," 1830). Smyth ("Sailor's Word-book," 1867) has man-bound (1867), of a ship, "detained in port for want of a proper complement …
3802 Etymology dictionary, p. brainstorm (n.).2
… brain-storm, by 1861 as a colloquial term for "fit of acute delirious mania; sudden dethronement of reason and will under stress of strong emotion, usually …
3803 Etymology dictionary, p. Brown Shirt (n.).2
… Sturmabteilung ("Storm Detachment"), the Nazi party militia founded 1921; they were called Brown Shirts in English because of their uniforms.
3804 Etymology dictionary, p. calm (n.).2
… of storm or wind," from the adjective or from Old French calme, carme "stillness, quiet, tranquility," or directly from Old Italian calma "quiet, fair weather" (see …
3805 Etymology dictionary, p. chimera (n.).3
… "winter storms" (another sense of Greek kheima ) and generally of destructive natural forces. The word was used generically for "any grotesque monster formed …
3806 Etymology dictionary, p. cyclone (n.).2
… , "extensive storm characterized by the revolution of air around a calm center in which the wind blows spirally around the center," coined by British East India …
3807 Etymology dictionary, p. devil (n.).6
… , dust storm" is from 1835 ( dust devil is attested by 1867). In U.S. place names, the word often represents a native word such as Algonquian manito, more properly …
3808 Etymology dictionary, p. dust (n.).2
… tunst "storm, breath," German Dunst "mist, vapor," Danish dyst "milldust," Dutch duist ), from PIE *dheu- (1) "dust, smoke, vapor" (source also of Sanskrit dhu- "shake," Latin fumus …
3809 Etymology dictionary, p. dust-storm (n.).1
dust-storm (n.)
3810 Etymology dictionary, p. Elmo.2
… in storms, 1560s, from Italian fuoco di Sant'Elmo, named for the patron saint of Mediterranean sailors, a corruption of the name of St. Erasmus, an Italian bishop …
3811 Etymology dictionary, p. Euxine.3
… , dangerous storms that make the sea perilous to sailors and darken its face (or perhaps in reference to the color of the water, from the sea being deep and relatively …
3812 Etymology dictionary, p. expugn (v.).2
… assault, storm, capture" (source also of Spanish expugnar, Italian espugnare ), from ex (see ex- ) + pugnare "to fight" (see pugnacious ). Related: Expugned; expugnable .
3813 Etymology dictionary, p. firestorm (n.).2
also fire-storm, 1580s, in poetry, from fire (n.) + storm (n.). From 1945 in reality, in reference to nuclear war.
3814 Etymology dictionary, p. fog (n.1).2
… snow storm." Compare also Old English fuht, Dutch vocht, German Feucht "damp, moist." Figurative phrase in a fog "at a loss what to do" first recorded c. 1600. Fog-lights …
3815 Etymology dictionary, p. gale (n.).2
… a storm; in technical meteorological use, a wind between 32 and 63 miles per hour.
3816 Etymology dictionary, p. hailstorm (n.).2
also hail-storm, 1690s, from hail (n.) + storm (n.).
3817 Etymology dictionary, p. hurricane (n.).2
sea-storm of severest intensity, 1550s, a partially deformed adoption of Spanish huracan (Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, "Historia General y Natural …
3818 Etymology dictionary, p. landwehr (n.).2
… "alarm; storm" (see storm (n.)).
3819 Etymology dictionary, p. line (n.).10
… line-storm (1850) is a type supposed to happen in the 10 days or two weeks around the times the sun crosses the equator.
3820 Etymology dictionary, p. loiter (v.).2
… a storm; in modern Dutch, leuteren "to delay, linger, loiter over one's work," according to Watkins, literally "to make smaller," and perhaps from Germanic *lut-, from …