Word Meanings - HAILSTORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail.

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• STORMING
  from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.
• STORMGLASS
  A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
• STORM
  A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like. Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging,
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• STORMINESS
  The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
• SHOWERY
  1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.
• STORMILY
  In a stormy manner.
• STORM-BEAT
  Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser.
• STORMWIND
  A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow.
• STORMFINCH
  The storm petrel.
• ACCOMPANIER
  He who, or that which, accompanies. Lamb.
• ACCOMPANIST
  The performer in music who takes the accompanying part. Busby.
• SHOWERLESS
  Rainless; freo from showers.
• ACCOMPANIMENT
  That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically:
• STORMLESS
  Without storms. Tennyson.
• SHOWERINESS
  Quality of being showery.
• STORMCOCK
  The missel thrush. The fieldfare. The green woodpecker.
• STORMY
  1. Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week. "Beyond the stormy Hebrides." Milton. 2. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury;
• SHOWERFUL
  Full of showers. Tennyson.
• STORMFUL
  Abounding with storms. "The stormful east." Carlyle. -- Storm"ful*ness, n.
• THUNDERSHOWER
  A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• WINDSTORM
  A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.
• THUNDERSTORM
  A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• HAILSTORM
  A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail.
• OUTSTORM
  To exceed in storming. Insults the tempest and outstorms the skies. J. Barlow.
• SNOWSTORM
  A storm with falling snow.