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1841 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SCALADE.2 (Noah Webster)
A storm or assault on a fortified place, in which the soldiers enter the place by means of ladders. It is written also escalade.
1842 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SCALE.10 (Noah Webster)
5. The art of storming a place by mounting the wall on ladders; an escalade, or scalade.
1843 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SCALE.17 (Noah Webster)
1. To climb, as by a ladder; to ascend by steps; and applied to the walls of a fortified place, to mount in assault or storm.
1844 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SCALING.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Ascending by ladders or steps; storming.
1845 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SCATTER.10 (Noah Webster)
1. To be dispersed or dissipated. The clouds scatter after a storm.
1846 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEEL.3 (Noah Webster)
SEEL, SEELING, n. The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm. Obs.
1847 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHELTER.4 (Noah Webster)
From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. Pope.
1848 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHOW.27 (Noah Webster)
Just such she shows before a rising storm. Dryden.
1849 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHOWER.3 (Noah Webster)
1. A fall of rain or hail, a sort of duration. It may be applied to like a fall of snow, but this seldon occurs. It is applied to a fall of rain or hail of short continuance, or of more or less violence, but never to a storm of long continuance.
1850 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SIGN.2 (Noah Webster)
… a storm, and of external marks which are signs of a good constitution.
1851 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SILLY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Weak; helpless. After long storms- With which my silly bark was toss’d
1852 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPRAY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Among seamen, the water that is driven from the top of a wave in a storm, which spreads and flies in small particles. It differs from spoon-drift; as spray is only occasional, whereas spoon-drift flies continually along the surface of the sea.
1853 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STORM.1 (Noah Webster)
STORM, n. [G., to disturb. L. The primary sense of storm is a rushing, raging or violent agitation.]
1854 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STORM.2 (Noah Webster)
… a storm of wind, is correct language, as the proper sense of the word is rushing, violence. It has primarily no reference to a fall of rain or snow. But as a violent …
1855 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STORM.3 (Noah Webster)
O beat those storms, and roll the seas in vain.
1856 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STORM.6 (Noah Webster)
I will stir up in England some black storms.
1857 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STORM.7 (Noah Webster)
Her sister began to scold and raise up such a storm--
1858 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STORM.9 (Noah Webster)
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate.
1859 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STORM.11 (Noah Webster)
STORM, v.t. To assault; to attack and attempt to take by scaling the walls, forcing gates or breaches and the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
1860 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STORM.12 (Noah Webster)
STORM, v.i.