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

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  1. n. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
  2. n. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
  3. n. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
  4. v. t. To disturb as by a tempest.
  5. v. i. To storm.
  6. n. a violent commotion or disturbance
  7. n. (literary) a violent wind
  8. n:100 n. (literary) a violent wind