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    Thunder , n. [OE. þunder, þonder, þoner, AS. þunor; akin to þunian to stretch, to thunder, D. donder thunder, G. donner, OHG. donar, Icel. þōrr Thor, L. tonare to thunder, tonitrus thunder, Gr. τόνος a stretching, straining, Skr. tan to stretch. √52. See Thin, and cf. Astonish, Detonate, Intone, Thursday, Tone.]
    1. The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
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    2. The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt. [Obs.]
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      The revenging gods
      'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.
      Shak.

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    3. Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.
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    4. An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
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      The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
      Prescott.

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      Thunder pumper. (Zool.) (a) The croaker (Haploidontus grunniens). (b) The American bittern or stake-driver. -- Thunder rod, a lightning rod. [R.] -- Thunder snake. (Zool.) (a) The chicken, or milk, snake. (b) A small reddish ground snake (Carphophis amoena syn. Celuta amoena) native to the Eastern United States; -- called also worm snake. -- Thunder tube, a fulgurite. See Fulgurite.
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    Thunder , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Thundered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Thundering.] [AS. þunrian. See Thunder, n.]
    1. To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.
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      Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
      Job xl. 9.

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    2. Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.
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      His dreadful voice no more
      Would thunder in my ears.
      Milton.

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    3. To utter violent denunciation.
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    Thunder, v. t. To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.
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    Oracles severe
    Were daily thundered in our general's ear.
    Dryden.

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    An archdeacon, as being a prelate, may thunder out an ecclesiastical censure.
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