‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) An Indian monkey (Macacus Rhesus), protected by the Hindus as sacred. See Rhesus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] (Med.) A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ AS. Chiltern the Chiltern, high hills in Buckinghamshire, perh. Fr. ceald cold + ern, ærn, place. ] A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G., from dachs badger + hund dog. ] (Zool.) One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hundred, AS. hundred a territorial division; hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-raþjan to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundrað, Dan. hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade, Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant, Ir. cead, L. centum, Gr. "ekato`s, Skr. çata. √309. Cf. Cent, Century, Hecatomb, Quintal, and Reason.] 1. The product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C. [1913 Webster]

With many hundreds treading on his heels. Shak. [1913 Webster]

☞ The word hundred, as well as thousand, million, etc., often takes a plural form. We may say hundreds, or many hundreds, meaning individual objects or units, but with an ordinal numeral adjective in constructions like five hundreds, or eight hundreds, it is usually intended to consider each hundred as a separate aggregate; as, ten hundreds are one thousand. [1913 Webster]

2. A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen. [1913 Webster]

Hundred court, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] Blackstone. [1913 Webster]

a. Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred. Blount. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hundred times as much or as many. [ 1913 Webster ]

He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time. Mark x. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2, 000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. to`nos 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The revenging gods
'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Job xl. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance. [ 1913 Webster ]

His dreadful voice no more
Would thunder in my ears. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To utter violent denunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oracles severe
Were daily thundered in our general's ear. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

An archdeacon, as being a prelate, may thunder out an ecclesiastical censure. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination. [ 1913 Webster ]

He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Paleon.) A belemnite, or thunderstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thunderbolt beetle (Zool.), a long-horned beetle (Arhopalus fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunk of oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and bluish-black, with W-shaped whitish or silvery markings on the elytra. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A burst of thunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity. “Thunderclaps that make them quake.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

When suddenly the thunderclap was heard. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. [ 1913 Webster ]

That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A large European loach (Misgurnus fossilis). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, -- often appearing before a thunderstorm. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Emitting thunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. J. Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Very great; -- often adverbially. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Thun"der*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. Thunder. Rev. iv. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without thunder or noise. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Written also thundrous. ] 1. Producing thunder. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

How he before the thunderous throne doth lie. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Making a noise like thunder; sounding loud and deep; sonorous. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Thun"der*ous*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Secure against the effects of thunder or lightning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fear no more the lightning flash,
Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Paleon.) A belemnite. See Belemnite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Thunderstruck p. p. Thunderstruck, -strucken p. pr. & vb. n. Thunderstriking. ] 1. To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. [ R. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle. [ 1913 Webster ]

drove before him, thunderstruck. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbaena, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thundery a. Accompanied with thunder; thunderous. [ R. ] “Thundery weather.” Pennant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Thunderous; sonorous. “Scraps of thunderous epic.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To send up a noise like thunder. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]