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. tonos 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. (Zoöl.) (a) The croaker (Haploidontus grunniens). (b) The American bittern or stake-driver. -- Thunder rod, a lightning rod. [R.] -- Thunder snake. (Zoöl.) (a) The chicken, or milk, snake. (b) A small reddish ground snake (Carphophis amœna syn. Celuta amœna) native to the Eastern United States; -- called also worm snake. -- Thunder tube, a fulgurite. See Fulgurite.
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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. Ayliffe.
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