Search for: STORMS
1781 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CEASE.6 (Noah Webster)
3. To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.
1782 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONJURATION.1 (Noah Webster)
… , allay storms, or perform supernatural or extraordinary acts.
1783 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COVERT.9 (Noah Webster)
A tabernacle--for a covert from storm and rain. Isaiah 4:6 .
1784 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DAMAGE.4 (Noah Webster)
DAMAGE, v.t. To hurt or harm; to injure; to impair; to lessen the soundness, goodness or value of. Rain may damage corn or hay; a storm may damage a ship; a house is often damaged by fire, when it is not destroyed; heavy rains damage roads.
1785 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEAD-LIGHT.1 (Noah Webster)
DEAD-LIGHT, n. ded’-light. A strong wooden port, made to suit a cabin window, in which it is fixed, to prevent the water from entering a ship in a storm.
1786 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISABLE.5 (Noah Webster)
4. To destroy the strength; or to weaken and impair so as to render incapable of action, service or resistance. A fleet is disabled by a storm, or by a battle. A ship is disabled by the loss of her masts or spars.
1787 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISLODGE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To remove or drive from a lodge or place or rest; to drive from the place where a thing naturally rests or inhabits. Shells resting int he sea at a considerable depth, are not dislodged by storms.
1788 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISMAST.1 (Noah Webster)
DISMAST, v.t. [dis and mast.] To deprive of a mast or masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismated the ship.
1789 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DREAD.12 (Noah Webster)
DREAD, v.t. To fear in a great degree; as, to dread the approach of a storm.
1790 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DREADFUL.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Impressing great fear; terrible; formidable; as a dreadful storm, or dreadful night.
1791 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DRIVE.26 (Noah Webster)
2. To rush and press with violence; as, a storm drives against the house.
1792 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELM.2 (Noah Webster)
… a storm in 1810, at which time its stem measured 24 feet in circumference.
1793 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENGENDER.5 (Noah Webster)
Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there.
1794 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EQUINOCTIAL.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Pertaining to the time when the sun enters the equinoctial points; as an equinoctial gale or storm, which happens at or near the equinox, in any part of the world.
1795 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ERR.9 (Noah Webster)
A storm of strokes, well meant, with fury flies,
1796 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ESCAPE.12 (Noah Webster)
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Psalm 55:8 .
1797 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ESTUARY.1 (Noah Webster)
ESTUARY, n. [L. oestuarium, from oestuo, to boil or foam, oestus, heat, fury, storm.]
1798 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FEAR.22 (Noah Webster)
1. To feel a painful apprehension of some impending evil; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotions of alarm or solicitude. We fear the approach of an enemy or of a storm. We have reason to fear the punishment of our sins.
1799 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLURRY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A sudden blast or gust, or a light temporary breeze; as a flurry of wind. It is never with us applied to a storm of duration.
1800 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FOLLOW.7 (Noah Webster)
5. To succeed in order of time; to come after; as a storm is followed by a calm.