Tempest

Tempest (tempest)
n.	(?)
Tem"pest
[OF. tempeste, F. tempête, (assumed) LL. tempesta, fr. L. tempestas a portion of time, a season, weather, storm, akin to tempus time. See Temporal of time.]

An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.

[We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled,
Each on his rock transfixed. Milton.

Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.

A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.

[Archaic] Smollett.

* Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self- explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the like.

Syn. -- Storm; agitation; perturbation. See Storm.

Tempest

Tempest (tempest)
v. t.
Tem"pest

To disturb as by a tempest.

[Obs.]

Part huge of bulk
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
Tempest the ocean. Milton.

Tempest

Tempest (tempest)
v. i.
Tem"pest

To storm.

[Obs.] B. Jonson.

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