tempest

tempest is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm. [We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed. Milton.

[2] Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.

[3] A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4. [Archaic] Smollett.

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