- (n.) Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.
- (n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
- (n.) A belemnite or thunderstone.
- (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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